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There is no direct link on the list page you link, but when you look at the details of any restaurant the link is there with phone numbers and other details. A

There is no direct link on the list page you link, but when you look at the details of any restaurant the link is there with phone numbers and other details. Anyway, even if it was the case, how do you classify this as "stealing content" (with an obvious reference to the recent Google/Bing fight)? They are offering a service, posting user generated reviews of restaurants and sending new clients to them. It does not even go close to stealing in my opinion.

paganel 16y ago
> but when you look at the details of any restaurant the link is there with phone numbers and other details. Yeah, of course I saw that, but there's the second issue with it: Long story short, I used to be directly involved in building a couple of this type of aggregators (or "vertical search engines", as they were called 2-3 years ago), and we were particularly careful to include a direct link to the webpage we were getting the results from on our SERPS, and also we DID NOT display any contact information for the adds in question (cars and real-estate), as that would have just stolen user clicks from the sites we were parsing (what's the user's incentive to click to the website anymore? if he can see the price and all the contact info he needs on our pages). But mind you, we didn't have Google's lawyers, nor their clout, nor their "don't be evil" slogan, maybe that's the reason why they can do these sorts of things while others think twice about it.