Friday, October 21, 2005
Search Engine Journal - Craigslist Blocking Oodle : Destination vs.Aggregation:
"Craigslist has been the proverbial poster child for friendliness, openness and online cooperation. However, as John Battelle reported, Craigslist has apparently blocked Oodle CEO Craig Donato’s Craigslistassifieds aggregator from crawling and indexing Craigslist’s listings. Currently, the local marketplace accounts for a large percentage of Oodle’s listings (haven’t done the count, but it’s significant).
It’s a bit of a surprise that Craigslist, rather than Cars.com, for example, would do this. But, on the other hand, consumers need not visit Craigslist if they can get Craigslist + everything else from Oodle. This is the central dilemma for all “destination sites” that permit their content to be scraped and presented by aggregators. Indeed, this is the dilemma for directories and newspapers in pushing their content out to search engine results..."
"Craigslist has been the proverbial poster child for friendliness, openness and online cooperation. However, as John Battelle reported, Craigslist has apparently blocked Oodle CEO Craig Donato’s Craigslistassifieds aggregator from crawling and indexing Craigslist’s listings. Currently, the local marketplace accounts for a large percentage of Oodle’s listings (haven’t done the count, but it’s significant).
It’s a bit of a surprise that Craigslist, rather than Cars.com, for example, would do this. But, on the other hand, consumers need not visit Craigslist if they can get Craigslist + everything else from Oodle. This is the central dilemma for all “destination sites” that permit their content to be scraped and presented by aggregators. Indeed, this is the dilemma for directories and newspapers in pushing their content out to search engine results..."
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