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0 pointslaurynas-s7y ago0 comments

By crawling Google Maps, extracted the publicly displayed review counts.

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3dfan7y ago

Did you do some research of the legality of this?

I did some research, but did not found enough conclusive evidence whether it is legal or not.

So if I receive a claim from Google legal team, I will take the site down.

3dfan7y ago

Yes, crawling and publishing crawled data seems to be a very complicated, grey area.

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3dfan7y ago

Did you do some research of the legality of this?

I did some research, but did not found enough conclusive evidence whether it is legal or not.

So if I receive a claim from Google legal team, I will take the site down.

3dfan7y ago

Yes, crawling and publishing crawled data seems to be a very complicated, grey area.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse