Whether it be data scraping, data extraction, web scraping, page scraping or html scraping, those little snippets of information can out rank your own site.
Neophites pulling information from another site can hurt your own rankings. For instance, I was number one for several keywords, took five days off come home and I found my site on page five.
I corrected the problem already, but still the number one for this keyword is a scraper/blackhatter/ant farmer/ or what ever. This practice of stealing is highly illegal, immoral, and goes against hackethic and hackerdom.
I know I am pretty hacked off over these zealots. I am getting tired of always being in hack mode. The problem is growing and no one seems to be doing anything about it.
I even recieved 16,000 hits from Israel, so yeah I am pretty much pissed off right about now. greek39