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Re:Web Scraping in 2016 by greglindahl on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @11:52PM (#12349550)
A majority of the websites that blekko, a google competitor, contacted to ask for robots.txt access ignored us.
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Re:Web Scraping in 2016 by sjwright on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @12:40AM (#12349718)
I agree, it's a difficult conundrum. It sucks.
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Re:Web Scraping in 2016 by greglindahl on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @01:20AM (#12349843)
There are worse barriers to entry for a search engine! DMCA take-downs... Right to be forgotten... click history...
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