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RandallBrown on July 24, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Craigslist Suing Padmapper

Why doesn't Craigslist want PadMapper using their information? (I know that's irrelevant to the lawsuit)

The more people that use PadMapper and find CraigsList entries on there, the more people that are using CraigsList.

Why wouldn't they want that? If I were a real estate listing company, I'd want my data to be found on as many real estate search apps as possible.

slig on July 24, 2012 [–]

One reason is that once they're big enough, they can just flip the bird at craigslist and use their own data.

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