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motordavid

10-12-2010 11:21 AM

Mining Sites&Forums for Data: "The Scrapers"

Wonder if they have dredged here, or sites like this?

From today's WSJ...

'Scrapers' Dig Deep for Data on the Web - WSJ.com

ard	10-12-2010 08:36 PM

Highly doubtful.

If they did, BMW would not continually screw up their 'customer processes'...hence I conclude they don't do it.

:)

JCL	10-12-2010 11:26 PM

Well, we had that lawyer a while back who was surreptitiously collecting information for a potential class action suit against BMW. That seems like a type of data scraping.

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