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by tasooey 5233 days ago
Sorry, realized I never answered your question.

The difference: We scrape medical forums, blogs, twitter, facebook, etc (all the social media avenues) and add a layer of intelligent semantic analysis to bring you the best information relevant to what you have (or just the hottest news if you don't have anything).

If there isn't anything new that meets our threshold, we won't send you anything.

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Scraping sites for this content has vary basic copyright issues. How do you get around that?
From our research about these laws, as long as we cite back to the original site (i.e. we're not displaying their information on our own sites, only linking to them) and respect the no-scrape robots.txt files, we're in the clear.