Scraping away profits

At technology company Graphiq, Web-scraping bots were becoming more than just a nuisance. They were impacting its bottom line.The company collects and interprets billions of data points from thousands of online data sources and turns them into visual graphs that website visitors can use for free. Scrapers were extracting data from hundreds of millions of these pages and building duplicate sites. “We don’t want people to reuse [our data] commercially for free because there is a c