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It's ironic writing an article like that, while their ToS states: > As a user of the Site, you agree not to: > 1. Systematically retrieve data or other conte
by cleansy 6y ago
It's ironic writing an article like that, while their ToS states:
> As a user of the Site, you agree not to:
> 1. Systematically retrieve data or other content from the Site to create or compile, directly or indirectly, a collection, compilation, database, or directory without written permission from us.
- Frost1x 6y agoIrony is even deeper when you look on the other side, which is Google who made most their money off scraping data from people in different forms. It's data scraping/middlemen all the way down... I wonder if Google indexes their scrape results to throw some loops in the mix.
- namdnay 6y agoGoogle have respected non scrape headers for decades no?
- Frost1x 6y agoGoogle also curates and republishes data from a lot of sites, including news sites and informational sites that significantly reduces traffic to other sites, etc. There's a lot of data Google scraped that wasn't necessarily explicitly given permission to outside their page crawler. They chose "beg for forgiveness" over "ask for permission" in many cases. The point being that there's irony in every direction, the proverbial "pot calling the kettle black." Lots of irony in both directions.
- sdinsn 6y agoJust because its in the ToS doesn't mean its enforceable. That line is not enforceable in the US.