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• SheinhardtWigCo 8y ago
  Aren’t you afraid of being sued by Google for selling their search results?
  • wstuartcl 8y ago
    My first thought as well, looks like the business is 100% based on breaking TOS. From their site: Is scraping legal? In the United States, scraping public resources falls under the Fair Use doctrine, and is protected by the First Amendment. See the LinkedIn Vs. hiQ scraper ruling for more information. This does not constitute legal advice, and you should seek the counsel of an attorney on your specific matter to comply with the laws in your jurisdiction. ROFL, I guess if you are able to ignore the layers of other issues TOS, breaking of technology to specifically exclude your use case, etc and are only willing to apply some very tangential case law against your reasoning it is "legal".
• mlb_hn 8y ago
  The misconceptions about nonhuman/invalid traffic (NHT) seem like a problem brewing. There's an arms race between the NHT guys (e.g. ad fraud networks) and the guys trying to detect it (e.g. ad providers). Meanwhile, a lot of people are using analytics to inform decision making assuming most traffic is legitimate (e.g. news organizations, anyone doing A/B testing). The guys naively using analytics with weak feature detection may be totally unprepared to deal with nonhuman traffic from repurposed networks which have been optimized to defeat the more advanced countermeasures =/