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> Bots can probably perfectly duplicate the behavior of a toolbar. Only the rate and volume of requests would be different. If they do, isn't that precisely wh
by regularfry 16y ago
> Bots can probably perfectly duplicate the behavior of a toolbar. Only the rate and volume of requests would be different.
If they do, isn't that precisely what Google would want? Isn't it only the rate and volume of requests that are a problem?
- dmoney 16y agoThey might not want someone to build a large database of pageranks.
- rick_2047 16y agook, wouldn't that require like a very very very long time? Google has a dadabase probably terabytes big and if someone does want it can't they do something like what DDG does? I believe they get their searches by yahoo for free
- olefoo 16y agoThere is plenty of malware that finds victims by looking at the results of google searches. Google seems to think that they have an obligation to prevent the indiscriminate spread of self-replicating infovores. Fucking Censorship if you ask me.