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Thanks for the clarification, and sorry to have jumped to the wrong conclusion. However, your blog post doesn't make it clear that your service is significantly different from "Candidate Search". You may want to update the post to say that you're doing this with Stack Exchange's permission and not competing with them.

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I'd consider excluding the part about SE giving permission. No matter what the correspondence, I'd be wary about making any definitive statements regarding the company based on the contents of an informal e-mail.

Well, I don't want to put any thought into that yet. I synchronize over the public API and wrote a tool which operates only on public accessible data. I don't have access to all the internal data which the real Candidate Search has access to, so I could never compete with them on a threatening level.

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