Case Study
Leverages PerimeterX Bot Defender to Stop Scraping Attack
www.perimeterx.com Problem A main competitive advantage for HotelsCombined is their content. The attraction and retention of customers lies heavily from their investment in their image algorithms, geography and other intellectual property for accumulating proprietary information. However, an infiltration of scraping bots started to impact their web traffic to the point that any analysis of their traffic data was deemed unreliable for making business decisions. They were vulnerable in their ability to negotiate good rates with their suppliers without reliable data. And ultimately, they ran the risk of losing their customers without the ability to offer the best pricing from suppliers. As a tech company, HotelsCombined attempted to build their own solution to solve their scraping bo