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Re:Ryanair wins screen scraping case against Booking.com in ... by renewiltord on Monday July 22, 2024 @04:38PM (#41039559)
That's normal. Information is a very valuable resource. It's often the case that advertising companies can be very profitable while people advertising using them have worse margins.
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Re:Ryanair wins screen scraping case against Booking.com in ... by lotsofpulp on Monday July 22, 2024 @05:01PM (#41039764)
The information being referred to here is not scarce, though.

All airlines and hotels and car rental websites show everyone the information, at the cost of a few minutes low effort button clicking. A vast change from how difficult and time consuming it was to access information before the internet.

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Re:Ryanair wins screen scraping case against Booking.com in ... by s1artibartfast on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @02:06AM (#41042995)
> The information being referred to here is not scarce, though. >All airlines and hotels and car rental websites show everyone the information, at the cost of a few minutes low effort button clicking. A vast change from how difficult and time consuming it was to access information before the internet.

I think the difference in information is tremendous. getting 100 quotes from hotels from individual hotels websites would take many hours, and is a 5 second operation through booking.

Consider that you might do that several of times in the process of creating a booking, it might represent a dozens of hours of information collection and organization.

organization and accessibility has tremendous value to the customer.

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