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> Google has a policy against scraping their results, but their whole business model is predicated off scraping other sites and making money off the content Ye
by arcturus17 7y ago
> Google has a policy against scraping their results, but their whole business model is predicated off scraping other sites and making money off the content
Yea a couple days ago I was checking the Places API, which they’ve built off user-generated content and scraping Yelp and others. They charge $17 / 1000 calls for certain items and don’t you dare cache anything for too long.
Great way to build a business: get data for free, wall it off and put a hefty price tag on it, then put your best lawyers around the moat for good measure!
- londons_explore 7y agoI downloaded all the places data for the world while it was still free. In my jurisdiction, the data is considered owned by the place owners rather than Google, so I doubt they'll come after me.
- sverige 7y agoThat's the ancestry.com business model as well.