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[Michael Czeiszperger <michael AT czeiszperger.org>]

On Jan 13, 2009, at 12:36 PM, Brian Henning wrote:

Aside:

"automated Google searches" - careful.  Automated use of Google may be at odds with Google's Terms Of Service.  A few years ago I was tasked with generating some automated reports on Google's page rank for my employer's e-Commerce site.  They may have changed, but at the time I remember reading in their TOS that any sort of robotic access to Google's search engine was prohibited.

 

So make sure your 'bot has a humanesque pattern to its requests of Google.

Its just Google's own alert service:

http://www.google.com/alerts

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Michael Czeiszperger

Chapel Hill, NC 

"He who is tired of Weird Al is tired of life." - H. Simpson

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