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>I wouldn't be surprised if Google Maps has handcrafted (or manually tuned) scraping code to extract reviews from Yelp and other major review sites, and same fo
by tejaswiy 16y ago
>I wouldn't be surprised if Google Maps has handcrafted (or manually tuned) scraping code to extract reviews from Yelp and other major review sites, and same for Google News for the extraction of the news body from the major online news sources. How is this different?
Sorry, but Google drives traffic to their sites. That's what a search engine is supposed to do. Msft just scrapes Google's results and presents the data as its own.
- ot 16y ago> Sorry, but Google drives traffic to their sites. That's what a search engine is supposed to do. Then why are newspapers not so happy about it? http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/nov/09/murdoch-google http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/nov/09/murdoch-google And, BTW, just to be clear, Msft can't "scrape". That would violate robots.txt.
- kelledin 16y ago> Then why are newspapers not so happy about it? Rupert Murdoch and his kin are shortsighted, blustering fools when it comes to the 'net. Relying on their attitude to make your point is counterproductive at best.