> scraping 70 million retailer web pages every single day. This is a legitimate and massive source of automated traffic.
Why do they do this? For vital business intelligence. Major retailers like Amazon do not always notify vendors when they run out of stock. So, brands pay for data scraping services to monitor their own products. These "good bots" check inventory levels, see who is winning the "buy box," ensure product descriptions are correct, and track search result rankings. They even scrape from different locations and mobile device profiles to analyze what banner ads are being shown to different audiences.
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Guilty as charged. You quickly learn to bypass bot detection measures and create a fully automated system to gather all this information just because amazon doesn't provide it in an accessible manner causing harm to businesses who need this intel and their own internet infra.
Why doesn't Amazon provide this information? They just can't be bothered, knowing that they are the biggest retail platform and sellers "have" to be there regardless of how bad the experience is for them?
They have atrocious FBA fees. Then there's etsy, overstock, wayfair, shopify, but nothing gives you the rush of showing that buybox I guess. It's like an optimization game for them at this point.
Why do they do this? For vital business intelligence. Major retailers like Amazon do not always notify vendors when they run out of stock. So, brands pay for data scraping services to monitor their own products. These "good bots" check inventory levels, see who is winning the "buy box," ensure product descriptions are correct, and track search result rankings. They even scrape from different locations and mobile device profiles to analyze what banner ads are being shown to different audiences.
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Guilty as charged. You quickly learn to bypass bot detection measures and create a fully automated system to gather all this information just because amazon doesn't provide it in an accessible manner causing harm to businesses who need this intel and their own internet infra.