{"id":8446,"date":"2009-05-14T10:44:09","date_gmt":"2009-05-14T17:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=8446"},"modified":"2009-05-14T13:46:57","modified_gmt":"2009-05-14T20:46:57","slug":"nar-backs-off-labeling-google-a-scaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/8446\/nar-backs-off-labeling-google-a-scaper\/","title":{"rendered":"NAR Backs Off Labeling Google a “Scraper”"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m basing this on a flurry of tweets<\/a> out of NAR Mid Year, but it looks like the NAR rules committee came to its senses.<\/p>\n

I await the actual verbiage. It will be interesting to see what twisted hedge they come up with to distinguish an “indexer” from a “scraper”.<\/p>\n

Still, the question remains: Was the original decision to back MIBOR a deliberate attempt to see if they could rally the Luddites to hobble IDX?<\/p>\n

Or was it just plain vanilla cluelessness?<\/p>\n

Either way, it begs the even bigger question that was asked hundreds of times on blog posts over the last week: What are NAR members paying for?<\/p>\n

UPDATE: Not so fast. See Malok’s comment below. It’s not a done deal, apparently, and the twits are silent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m basing this on a flurry of tweets out of NAR Mid Year, but it looks like the NAR rules committee came to its senses. I await the actual verbiage. It will be interesting to see what twisted hedge they come up with to distinguish an “indexer” from a “scraper”. Still, the question remains: Was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[251,15,5,19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8446","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-big-mother","7":"category-carnival-of-real-estate","8":"category-real-estate","9":"category-technology","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10326,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/10326\/as-rpr-hits-nar-finally-concedes-that-google-isnt-a-scraper\/","url_meta":{"origin":8446,"position":0},"title":"As RPR hits, NAR (finally) Concedes that Google isn’t a “Scraper”","author":"John Rowles","date":"November 17, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I attended the NAR convention in San Diego over the weekend and this banner caught my eye. 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