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Let's play around a bit with this mentality: Google: man up and build your own database of everything. Stop indexing our data when we already offer our own sea
by zacharypinter 14y ago
Let's play around a bit with this mentality:
Google: man up and build your own database of everything. Stop indexing our data when we already offer our own search mechanism.
I get that everybody wants to build ajax web apps and ios apps and android apps and so on, but what's the point of the internet except for being the default client-server protocol if we can't create mashups? The whole point of the internet is that data is public and linkable and interconnected. If companies don't want to allow scraping and they don't provide an API for their non-user-specific data then they're defeating the whole point of the internet.
- dedward 14y agoThere are tons of reasons why Craigslist, as a business, may have taken this road, from a simple "less hassle for us" down the road to "we're building our own stuff" to. who knows. They're a private business - they can do what they want - we don't get to demand insight. The vast majority of their users don't give a hoot about whether or not other parties have a way to wrap up craigslist data and do stuff with it. The whole point of the Internet is that it's a collecation of independently run networks that can communicate. The point of the WWW is to serve hyeprlinked pages to people. There IS NO POINT to the internet - it just happened, and here we are.
- zem 14y agowe absolutely get to demand insight. whether they provide it or not is up to them, but demands are free.