Exactly… I tried to make that point by examining what a search engine really is. Pages and pages of content that really doesn’t belong to them. But its a very useful service. [essentially a scraper, though]
So what is the difference between a scraper site (blackhat) and an index/directory site (whitehat)? – to me the obvious answer to that is: is the final product useful to the end users?
Still wary about posting anyone elses site here. I certainly don’t want to be the catalyst for anyones site getting hacked because of someones emotional response to it.
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So I was hoping someone who has built one of these sites might be willing to help us understand a bit better. And probably they will be more willing when there is less aggression towards the subject.