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Is Web-Scraping Still in Fashion?

16 August 2010

Over the years, many techniques have been developed to give people a much needed edge in the online business world. While some techniques are above board and perfectly legitimate, othersknown sometimes as "black hat" marketing or techniques - are frowned upon. The process of web or data scraping is one those techniques that toes the thin line.

Now, scraping itself certainly isnt immoral, nor is it a way of cheating to get information. However, there are some in the Internet marketing and business world who feel that scraping is an unsavory aspect, because it can easily cause markets to become flooded by leading to parity and even plagiarism.

Basically, web scraping is the process of visiting and automatically collecting information from a website via a software program. It can also be done manually by copy-paste procedures, and some feel that allowing a human to do the scraping is far superior to letting an automated program handle it.

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