'Scraping' tactic exposes Seek to charges of gross hypocrisy

And then there are those pesky potential breaches of copyright and the Fair Trading Act by job sites Seek and Indeed. With special feature audio.

Nick Grant
Wed, 20 Jul 2016

New Zealand recruitment firms are complaining job sites Seek and Indeed have adopted the practice of taking – or “scraping” – other sites’ situation vacant ads and republishing them without permission.

Although the two overseas-owned companies insist what they’re doing is a service, not a sin, a

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