On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 23:36, Gunnar Hjalmarsson <nore...@gunnar.cc> wrote: snip > I just read Chas's reply, though, and I wasn't aware of the fact that Google > disallow *all* automated access to their search engine. snip
Well, they don't disallow all automated access; they do allow automated access through the SOAP and AJAX interfaces. There are also some urls that they do allow bots to look at (see http://google.com/robots.txt for more info). And while you can fool their checks some of the time, if you hit them too hard you will wind up seeing a page like this http://sorry.google.com/sorry/?continue=http://www.google.com or this http://google.com/sorry/misc/?continue=http://google.com -- Chas. Owens wonkden.net The most important skill a programmer can have is the ability to read. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
