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Re:Show HN: Find and Report Bed Bugs in North America by idlewords on Sunday July 06, 2014 @04:41PM (#7995638)
It looks like you scraped a bunch of data from my website (bedbugregistry.com) and put a different UI on it. That's pretty lame.

There are lots of worthy projects around bedbug tracking that you could do, particularly if you want to focus on specific cities. But please do the work yourself, and use your own data.

Re:Show HN: Find and Report Bed Bugs in North America by Udo on Sunday July 06, 2014 @04:51PM (#7995666)
Okay, as someone who doesn't know anything about both sites, a casual test (surveying results for Toronto, ON) does not suggest any data was lifted off your site. In fact, there is just one entry for all of Toronto on Bedbug Registry, whereas Bedbug Lookup seems to have dozens.

Of course it's possible that your search simply doesn't work, there are copious error messages on Bedbug Registry... Can you give more details about what you think was scraped from you?

At most BedbugLookup seems to be a superset of your site data.

Edit: seems the search on BBR is not working for me (and apparently for me only). Thanks for providing the links, I see that the data was indeed scraped. Not cool.

Re:Show HN: Find and Report Bed Bugs in North America by idlewords on Sunday July 06, 2014 @04:55PM (#7995692)
For example, all of the reports on this first page of Toronto results are from my site: http://bedbuglookup.com/toronto-on

Ditto for Vancouver and NYC. I stopped looking after that.

Re:Show HN: Find and Report Bed Bugs in North America by tptacek on Sunday July 06, 2014 @04:57PM (#7995702)
BBR has 2270 reports in Toronto:

http://bedbugregistry.com/metro/toronto/

It's listed on the site as "the bedbug capital of Canada".

Re:Show HN: Find and Report Bed Bugs in North America by dobbsbob on Sunday July 06, 2014 @04:56PM (#7995698)
I found my reviews I wrote on the bedbug registry back in 2008 on this site. Definitely scraped
Re:Show HN: Find and Report Bed Bugs in North America by caroyannis on Sunday July 06, 2014 @05:12PM (#7995785)
Hey there! Sorry about that.

There wasn't any malicious intent, I certainly don't make any money off of this. I just made this project for fun because I thought it'd be useful to have aggregated data from other reporting websites.

I'll remove the data at your request, though.

Re:Show HN: Find and Report Bed Bugs in North America by idlewords on Sunday July 06, 2014 @05:19PM (#7995820)
I appreciate that, thank you. Part of my problem with aggregation is that it removes the ability for people to amend or rescind what they've posted, or for me to drop listings out of Google when there's a legitimate dispute. The bedbug life is 1% programming and 99% angry/despondent/litigious email.
Re:Show HN: Find and Report Bed Bugs in North America by eps on Sunday July 06, 2014 @06:15PM (#7996093)
> Sorry about that.

What?

You basically stole a bunch of data without attribution to forge the credibility of your service and now you are just waving it off as not a big deal? What's wrong with you? I see no other option but to flag you the hell off the front page.