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Re:Ask HN: What non-work task have you automated? by amelius on Thursday October 12, 2017 @05:36AM (#15456748)
> How do you deal with the legality of scraping?

How did Google deal with it, when they started their search engine business?

Re:Ask HN: What non-work task have you automated? by jcun4128 on Thursday October 12, 2017 @05:53AM (#15456818)
My counter to this is, without Google's "algorithm" the search results would not be great/find what you want. And in this case websites want to volunteer/agree to index their site for visibility but then you still have to visit the site because conveniently The site summary ends before the content that you want. I don't know how I would find websites unless referred on some website.

I kinda felt the same way about how Netflix started out but I think they probably had a deal to pay a portion of revenue from dvd's that they rented out.

Re:Ask HN: What non-work task have you automated? by benji-york on Thursday October 12, 2017 @09:04AM (#15457630)
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Re:Ask HN: What non-work task have you automated? by gspetr on Thursday October 12, 2017 @09:23PM (#15462679)