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Re:Spam vs Mahalo: Matt Cutts Explains the Difference by lmkg on Monday February 22, 2010 @02:48PM (#1143541)
> The claims that we are "scraping" are absurd... we're using google, bing, twitter, etc. apis to do a comprehensive search page.

Some people would consider that scraping. How do you define "scraping" and how does this practice not fall under the definition?

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Re:Spam vs Mahalo: Matt Cutts Explains the Difference by sp332 on Monday February 22, 2010 @03:54PM (#1143687)
I think the point is using APIs, not "screen-scraping" - but the end result is mostly the same.
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