ResearchGate CEO denies scraping accounts from rival site to generate sign-ups | TechCrunch
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Summary:
"According to Butcher’s multiple sources, ResearchGate had scraped rival Academia.edu in order to spam their users in an effort to get them to sign up to ResearchGate.
Madisch, who didn’t flinch at the accusation that he paid an agency to scrape and spam users, denied this was the case."