MercuryNews.com | 10/21/2005 | Craigslist targets Oodle for `scraping' its listings: "Craigslist, long considered a paragon of community-friendly, almost anti-corporate business philosophy, has asked San Mateo Web company Oodle to quit picking up its listings. Oodle's technology pulls excerpts from craigslist and posts them on its own site, including a link so that a user can click on it. The user then gets forwarded to craigslist's full listing. The practice is known as ``scraping,'' as if Oodle were scraping listings from craigslist and piling them onto Oodle -- although Oodle objects to use of the term to describe what it does. The move signals a change of heart by craigslist, the popular San Francisco online classifieds company, which until now has tolerated similar practices by other sites. It is significant because it is the latest skirmish between content producers such as craigslist and those that would like to index the content for their own use -- and profit. The outcome will be far-reaching because the issue touches on just about everything on the Internet, from music, movies, books, classifieds and news."

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