? CASESTUDY Network of Pet and Hobby Supply Stores integrates Distil with Verizon Edgecast, Eliminating Price Scraping, while Ensuring Blazing Fast Response Times “Competitors use bots to perform an ‘Add To Cart’ action, then scrape for price. If we drop our price to $1.99, an hour later it could be $1.98 at another site. Then the competitor’s product appears higher in search engine price sorts. Boom—we just lost a sale. Also, those types of queries represent a high computational hit, taxing our backend servers and impacting site performance. Distil has made our lives so much easier.” Chief Information Officer Bot Buster CIO Challenges • Competitive data mining and price scraping bots killing response times for legitimate customers ? • Tedious, manual bad bot investigations to

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