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scrape

(v) Short form of 'screen scrape': To employ a variety of methods to steal content from a web site and represent it in another manner.

Generally seen as bad practice, but in widespread use. A bot can be used for such activity.

(from 'screen scrape', a technique used in the early days of terminal computing to read directly from terminal video memory)
Most of this content is automatically scraped from other, more legitimate sites.
by stuart@edesign.cc January 22, 2005
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urblej

(n) An urban legend.

Generally speaking, a story that is circulated extensively through either word-of mouth or (more recently) the internet, with little or no basis in fact.

Snopes.com is an excellent resource for such tales.

(Orig: Contraction of 'urban legend')
Many such stories circulated on the internet, no matter how amusing, are generally either pure urblej or hoax.
by stuart@edesign.cc January 22, 2005
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