Tweet Showing How Google Itself Is a “Scaper Site” Goes Viral
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Tweet Showing How Google Itself Is a “Scaper Site” Goes Viral
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Re: Tweet Showing How Google Itself Is a “Scaper Site” Goes Viral
#2Ugh why do we need an entire blog post about a tweet
Re: Tweet Showing How Google Itself Is a “Scaper Site” Goes Viral
#3In this case, scraping content makes perfect sense for a search engine that wants to show previews or other useful content for search results. Not sure what the big deal is, aside from providing somewhat nonsensical fuel for people who really, really want to have a big finger-pointing "j'accuse!" moment with respect to Google.
Re: Tweet Showing How Google Itself Is a “Scaper Site” Goes Viral
#4I don't see how this can be considered "Massively Viral". Not even viral, it isn't even interesting or note worthy.
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#5A funny tweet; A grasping article.
Re: Tweet Showing How Google Itself Is a “Scaper Site” Goes Viral
#6Ugh why do we need an entire blog post about a tweet
Slow news day?
Re: Tweet Showing How Google Itself Is a “Scaper Site” Goes Viral
#7Ugh why do we need an entire blog post about a tweet
Because journalists have an incentive to attract readers, and it worked. The blog post made it to the front page of HN.
(I don't think I've ever written a news article about a tweet and likely would not, barring extreme examples such as @WhiteHouse tweeting that the president had resigned or somesuch.)
Re: Tweet Showing How Google Itself Is a “Scaper Site” Goes Viral
#8In this case, scraping content makes perfect sense for a search engine that wants to show previews or other useful content for search results. Not sure what the big deal is, aside from providing somewhat nonsensical fuel for people who really, really want to have a big finger-pointing "j'accuse!" moment with respect to Google.
It's surprising hard to explain why it's ok for google to do this, but not other sites. The best I can come up with is "their search engine, their rules". Doesn't sound very ethical.
Re: Tweet Showing How Google Itself Is a “Scaper Site” Goes Viral
#9Ugh why do we need an entire blog post about a tweet
Blog post about tweet going "massively viral" leads to chorus of outrage on popular Internet boards (news.cnet.com)
Re: Tweet Showing How Google Itself Is a “Scaper Site” Goes Viral
#10Clever, but ultimately laughable. "A scraper site is a spam website...", that doesn't quite work for Google.