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Google Was Caught Scraping Data From A … – Business Insider

Google has a new, embarrassing scandal on its hands this morning. Kenyan startup Mocality conducted a relatively elaborate sting to catch Google scraping results from its database of local businesses. Mocality CEO Stefan?Magdalinski wrote up the full results on its blog. Mocality is a crowdsourced platform that lists over 170,000 small Kenyan businesses. Over the last two years it paid out over $100,000 to Kenyans who contributed listings to its database. For 100,000 of those 170,000 businesses, Mocality is the [...]