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Agree. Google not only tracked Bing but also set up fake results to catch them copying. There's an app that compares the price from Uber, Lyft and others servi

Agree. Google not only tracked Bing but also set up fake results to catch them copying. There's an app that compares the price from Uber, Lyft and others services. These two examples are using data from computer systems in a way companies didn't intend. Have you guys ever thought that search engines scraping your site is opt-out? We are just repelling this because Uber has a bad reputation.

stordoff 10y ago
> Google not only tracked Bing but also set up fake results to catch them copying. I'm not sure I see the similarity. Google never sent false queries to Bing - Google sent synthetic queries to their own infrastructure, and observed how Microsoft's software (search engine, toolbar etc.) responded to that. There's That seems closer to if Uber had just hired a team of people to use Lyft and record their observations (which is still problematic, as one of the results is tracking people without their knowledge, but for different reasons than falsifying queries to scrape this data).