At the end of the day users of your service won't be accessing our data, which means they'll be missing out on some data, and we'll be missing out on being included in potentially some cool applications. This spat isn't going to have a real effect on either of our businesses in the long run.<p>However, something that may have a bigger effect on your business is the seemingly dismissive and patronizing attitude you have towards webmasters. At this stage of the game you need us way more than we need you. I'm sure in this exchange there's defensiveness on your end because I attacked your company, and you've probably dealt with many PO'd guys like me (patience wears thin easily).<p>However, that's the nature of the web. Us webmasters grab our pitchforks and bitch and moan. I imagine if a large enough contingent of webmasters doesn't like you guys it WILL start to have an effect on your overall business.<p>In which case, it's probably smart business to either: A) play nice, even when we're not, and/or B) Demonstrate a clear business case why it's better for us to expose our data to your crawlers.