Re: Automating Searches

John Ersatznom wrote:
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And, of course, as long as you don't generate more traffic faster than
you could by typing in all those queries manually, I don't see any moral
qualms with this.

One might also argue that you were free to build
your own web-crawler, parse the pages it finds
for the content and links*, store the data in searchable
form, then rate and rank it according to whatever
criterion best suit you[1]. * Oh, of course then
'repeat for each link', & repeat each 7(?) days.

Setting up the software and hardware capable of
achieving that task, might cost a lot of money (I
guess) OTOH - you can pay a fee to someone
who has already gone to the effort, and has the
expertise.

Just because it is technically possible** to rip
Google off, does not make it right.

** + all the other iditioc reasons people generally
put forward to justify such theft, starting with..
- 'they don't have a right - it is free data!'. No it isn't -
the web pages themselves are free, but the search
engines hope to add value by sorting and filtering.

Also, Google is no 'monopoly'. As has been pointed
out in this (AFAIR) thread. You don't like Google's
prices? Go to the competition..

[1] And then, can you make it publicly available,
so I can rip your data, and resell it to my paying
clients?

Andrew T.

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