I am i-City Portal fan. I like to use it to find the thing that I want to buy in Sungai Petani. It is the most complete business directory in Sungai Petani for the moment. I used to search product that I want to buy from there. For example, when I want to buy my new mobile phone, I will use their service to find mobile product at telecommunication @ i-City Portal. And their search function is also easy to use.

Okay… Back to the topic. I discover another new company website - SmartBuy which also provide about the same service as i-City Portal does. Guest what? SmartBuy copied i-City Portal’s contents for its own use. Come on… Be creative a little bit. Don’t just simple copy and paste. Change something or enhance it. You can copy others’ stuff if you have their permission else leave a link back to their website and state that you copy from there. That should be the right way in Internet world.

I know that piracy is high in Malaysia. But we still need to respect others’ intellectual property. Cannot just simply copy and paste. Agree?

Below are some pages that SmartBuy copied. There might be more which taken from other website…

Associations @ i-City Portal == Associations @ SmartBuy
Bank @ i-City Portal == Banks @ SmartBuy
Government Sectors @ i-City Portal == Government @ SmartBuy
Hospital @ i-City Portal == Hospitals @ SmartBuy
Shopping Complex @ i-City Portal == Shopping Complex @ SmartBuy

Here are some screen shots of Associations pages…

Associations @ i-City Portal

Associations @ SmartBuy

I search at Google with “Central Kedah Coffee Shop Association 吉中咖啡公会” as keywords. Here is what I got.

Google show Associations @ i-City Portal as the 1st search result out of 10.

Based on Google search result, I can make a conclusion that SmartBuy copied others’ intellectual property (Note - search engine display pages that it had crawled. It means that SmartBuy is a new site and it have not been crawled yet) . Shame on SmartBuy!!!