Just wanted to follow up to Danny's post last month about ShopLocal winning its crawling case against Cairo. Cairo has now closed the site and states at the bottom of the page, "for great deals and sales in your area please visit www.shoplocal.com.
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ShopLocal Wins In Crawling Case Against Cairo Apparently, ShopLocal.com wasn't happy with rival local shopping search service Cairo for hitting its listings. ShopLocal took Cairo to court, and Cairo has now agreed not to make further "robotic or...
If that was because Cairo had everything ShopLocal had from crawling the site and more from crawling others, then it's no surprise that ShopLocal decided to block access. Cairo for hitting its listings.
