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by 3dfan 2703 days ago
Interesting. How did you get that data?
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laurynas-s 2703 days ago
By crawling Google Maps, extracted the publicly displayed review counts.
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3dfan 2703 days ago
Did you do some research of the legality of this?
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laurynas-s 2703 days ago
I did some research, but did not found enough conclusive evidence whether it is legal or not.

So if I receive a claim from Google legal team, I will take the site down.

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3dfan 2703 days ago
Yes, crawling and publishing crawled data seems to be a very complicated, grey area.
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