Upper Arlington, OH – Golf Course Technology Reviews, the leading online resource for comprehensive and independent reviews of golf course technology, has published: To Scrape or Not To Scrape, A Question for the Golf Industry.
This article examines the practice, process and possible implications of scraping tee time booking engines, a method increasingly used by various companies to gather data on golf course availability and pricing.
Scraping can lead to market distortion by creating unfair competitive advantages and impacting the dynamics of the market in several ways including:
- Information Asymmetry
- Pricing Manipulation
- Barrier to Entry
- Resource Strain on Target Sites
- Market Sensitivity and Volatility
A better future
There’s an opportunity to create a Fair Scraping Agreement in the golf industry and publish who participates and who does not. This would serve to enhance any existing acts of fairness.
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