My Petaling Street
This blog is about Petaling Street and everything interesting that goes on there.
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Entrecard calling me a scraper!
On the blogosphere it's regarded one of the scum words to use against a person and as a blogger it's just plain offensive when you are accused of being a scraper.
In case you don't know a scraper site is defined as follows:-
A scraper site is a website that copies all of its content from other websites using web scraping. No part of a scraper site is original. A search engine is not a scraper site: sites such as Yahoo and Google gather content from other websites and index it so that the index can be searched with keywords. Search engines then display snippets of the original site content in response to a user's search.
This according to WikiPedia.
I got this in my email from Entrecard:-
Your account 'My Petaling Street' on entrecard.com has been deleted. The administrator gave the following reason:
Scraper
Please contact support@entrecard.com if you have any questions regarding this action.
I admit that this blog has not been active in many months because I had exams and lost touch with blog updates but to label me a scraper boils my blood. None of my blog post here is copied from anywhere. I challenge Entrecard to prove otherwise.
Of course I've written back to Entrecard asking them to reconsider but they must be using some stupid bot to check Entrecard member website because they've seriously got it wrong in my case. How much sillier can you get?
Sandy at 3:53 PM
