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Old Aug 28, 2010 | 3:14 pm
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Originally Posted by ExpertFlyer Voice
* PR - We actually spend a lot of effort on positive PR for ExpertFlyer. Maybe you've read some of these: http://www.expertflyer.com/expertflyer-news
The issue is not positive PR, it's the negative PR.

Originally Posted by ExpertFlyer Voice
BTW, we don't doctor our PR posts to remove mention of any competing service. Yes, we noticed that, classy.
This cannot be addressed without a specific post reference.

Originally Posted by ExpertFlyer Voice
* "the KVS Tool does not do "screen-scraping", and never did." Your own User Agreement says otherwise:
No, all it says is that the KVS Tool is "a specialized web browser".

Originally Posted by ExpertFlyer Voice
Taking data from websites and using it in your application is the definition of screen scraping.
As a web browser, the KVS Tool does neither "take data", nor "use it" in the screen-scraping sense.

From http://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/User_agent:
"A user agent is a client application implementing a network protocol used in communications within a client–server distributed computing system. The term most notably refers to applications that access the World Wide Web [..].

Web user agents range from Web browsers to search engine crawlers (spiders), as well as mobile phones, screen readers and braille browsers used by people with disabilities.
Originally Posted by ExpertFlyer Voice
Do you not know what the word OR means?
And we also know what the term "misleading" means.

Originally Posted by ExpertFlyer Voice
users can get the same information on those websites directly, no tool required.
If they are masochists, perhaps. KVS Tool members tend to feel differently:
Originally Posted by Jumpgate
Searches are fast, robust, and easy to use. No back button, no re-filling out forms, no interpreting ANA's different shades of yellow - no web browser period.
Originally Posted by ExpertFlyer Voice
Now, you want to talk about price?
We see no merit in engaging in these continued attempts at black PR, or in addressing the factual and conceptual inaccuracies, which are just too numerous to list.

More importantly, these [mostly non-existing] issues are well-beyond the subject matter of this thread and we would like to keep it on-topic.
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