tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5819898692345221601.post8482881782671300919..comments2023-10-04T13:05:38.186+01:00Comments on Nick Lansley's Technology for Tesco.com Blog: Ocado admits to scraping Tesco web site to get price-matchesNick Lansleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00087509895945257528noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5819898692345221601.post-58297300720648417552012-04-03T10:42:20.169+01:002012-04-03T10:42:20.169+01:00Oh dear.... whiter than white Tesco complaining ab...Oh dear.... whiter than white Tesco complaining about ocado scraping its site for prices? then how come a company that sells automated site scraping solutions proudly boast that tesco is one of their customers? they even include the tesco logo on their site.<br /><br />http://www.automationanywhere.com/solutions/ST/T60.htmAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5819898692345221601.post-88170655574916194702012-03-21T15:04:19.806+00:002012-03-21T15:04:19.806+00:00If you want to email me, or would like me to email...If you want to email me, or would like me to email you then you can get me at vincent@siansplan.com<br /><br />Thanks,Vincent Breslinhttp://www.siansplan.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5819898692345221601.post-45561885655054485032012-03-21T15:01:25.566+00:002012-03-21T15:01:25.566+00:00Hi Nick,
Whats the best place to get hold of your...Hi Nick,<br /><br />Whats the best place to get hold of your API? I'm looking to show a developer of mine to assess how it would link up to my meal planning website. <br /><br />Won't be scraping anything so don't worry!<br /><br />ThanksVincent Breslinhttp://www.siansplan.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5819898692345221601.post-58345919456678473682012-01-12T15:16:21.836+00:002012-01-12T15:16:21.836+00:00Nothing new. Ocado was scolded by the ASA in 2009...Nothing new. Ocado was scolded by the ASA in 2009 for poorly price scraping Tesco while claiming to price match Tesco. There were rumours that Tesco was playing with prices on their website to catch Ocado out - true or not I have no idea.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5819898692345221601.post-6853655959020722882011-08-23T11:40:46.002+01:002011-08-23T11:40:46.002+01:00Nick - how does mysupermarket.co.uk get its prices...Nick - how does mysupermarket.co.uk get its prices - given that what it's doing is expressly forbidden (price comparison)?<br /><br />Hugo (ex. Digital Entertainment ;-))Hugo Rodger-Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12695583613011940337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5819898692345221601.post-52580913387060560172011-04-21T16:18:58.823+01:002011-04-21T16:18:58.823+01:00Plenty of companies do this, nothing new!
I work ...Plenty of companies do this, nothing new!<br /><br />I work for the dixons group (PC World/Currys) and they also do this.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5819898692345221601.post-84692440888107144302011-03-25T10:20:18.155+00:002011-03-25T10:20:18.155+00:00Very interested to hear your response on this one ...Very interested to hear your response on this one Nick.Tim Snoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5819898692345221601.post-58497290518911630442011-03-19T18:55:03.134+00:002011-03-19T18:55:03.134+00:00I suppose the only question here is to query how T...I suppose the only question here is to query how Tesco use technology to drive their price check service against ASDA. Whereas it's clear ASDA use a market aggregator (mysupermarket.com), are we to assume that Tesco's service is entirely updated manually by prices updated from ASDA stores? And that there is no temptation to use similar crawling for updates against ASDA.com?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com