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Serious question. If all websites decided to provide the structured data that Diffbot has to scrape, would Diffbot still have a business? If someone is making m
by mrdrozdov 11y ago
Serious question. If all websites decided to provide the structured data that Diffbot has to scrape, would Diffbot still have a business? If someone is making money off your data, shouldn't it be you?
- mwilcox 11y agoThey have a pretty good shot at owning customer relationships and becoming a channel for that structured data (a market sites can sell data through) if that does become the case
- jorgecurio 11y agowouldn't it be better for them to just turn their own API and control access to it? And wouldn't they just upload their database or whatever to transform it into an API not rely on screen scraping?