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Originally Posted by FightThisPatent
We do our own spidering.. you know that because you just talked about blocking us. You mentioned that people could do the equivalent of a t3report by using alexa or google.. i responded to say yes you can, but the data is not so good, and only limited to 1,000 results... so we DON'T rely on search engines.
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I'm sorry. Then I misunderstood. I thought you were suggesting that even if all your spiders were blocked your report still included the SE reports. I was pointing out that if your spiders were blocked, then your reports would only be the (inferior as you suggest) SE reports. But if you don't rely on SEs as you say, then once your spiders are blocked, your report will empty?
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Originally Posted by FightThisPatent
If you feel that this collected data will be harmful to you, then you have every right to try and block access.
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The fact that you claim your spider will try to work around anyone using industry standard protocols for managing User Agents casts a shadow over the integrity/intention of your tool. If you're going to cheat and hack, it's hard to see this as a wonderful aid.
If you really believed and could demonstrate the benefits of your 'tool' you would not be afraid to let others choose to let your spider visit.
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Originally Posted by FightThisPatent
so we can agree to disagree and you won't be a customer of a report.
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That's just the beginning. I don't care what information you claim to collect and why - your approach (visa vi using 'bad agents') starts in bad faith and it only gets worse from there.
I recommend that anyone not ordering this 'report' be sure to block any agents associated with this 'tool'.
-Dino