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Looked at a few products I'm familiar with, and it appears you're doing pretty damn well at summarizing the high and low points for them. Nice work, bookmarked. It's pretty rare to find an affiliate model type site that actually adds value.

Edit: You'll want to watch out for people scraping your work and hawking it as their own though. I did something kinda similar by taking poor OEM images and cleaning them up, adding some rotation/depth, improving product descriptions, specifications by hand, etc. Scraped and copied by competitors pretty soon thereafter. Then a whack-a-mole DMCA game of getting rid of the ones that didn't bother to even change the copy.




Thanks for the feedback :) Sad to hear about the copycats, anything you tried to prevent that besides DMCA? I guess it's unavoidable in the long term, but by then the competitive advantage is hopefully big enough.


You can, of course, play tricks with javascript to thwart the scrapers, or serve them deliberately bad data, block ip ranges, etc. Depends on how tenacious they are, it's a war of escalation.


The problem with trying to use the DMCA for this is that, provably, no human creativity is involved, and so it's likely that the output of this is uncopyrightable.


It tends to work in practice anyway. Competitors that stoop that low aren't likely to actually contest it. I understand there's a legal liability there, but again, if you research who is doing it, the risk can be very low. And if you focus just on google SERPS, they often don't notice their pages got yanked from the index.




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