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The European commission opened an inquiry, and 20 organisations added complaints, ranging across Google's methods of modifying search, scraping content, slicing advertising, and making exclusive data deals.
In 2012, Almunia published a list of objections to Google's existing search layout and other behaviour, including "scraping" content from third-party sites for reuse in search results.
An ingenious system that compiles a newspaper of only Web articles you've flagged to "read later," Instapaper is controversial for sometimes "scraping" content away from ads.
TrafficPaymaster, which claimed to produce webpages by "spinning and scraping" content and then seeking to attract advertising – in contravention of Google's code of conduct – is no longer on sale.
How to Corp's websites have now disappeared from the internet and TrafficPaymaster, which claimed to produce web pages by "spinning and scraping" content and sought to attract advertising in contravention of Google's code of conduct, is no longer on sale.
And the company is scraping content off the sites, something that may violate the terms and conditions of some or all of these services (Meebo did the same with instant messaging platforms, and was eventually embraced – but they could have just been shut down).
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"A lot of big companies scrape content," he says.
The move comes after Facebook's surveys and in-person interviews discovered that users hate scraped content.
Besides the mobile app, Help Me Help can also scrape content from Twitter into its database, which will make it even easier for people to submit updates.
Today we're living in the third era, a hybrid, which includes a curious mixture of Web 2.0's promise of scraped content pulled from various deep sources (with search as the homepage) and augmented by social and algorithmically driven curation via Facebook, Twitter and Google.
The truth is Google is probably engaging in some somewhat borderline behavior by scraping Facebook content, and are almost certainly violating Facebook's terms and conditions.
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