Daniel Brandt seems to regard Google as a corporate crominal, and stealing back as the solution. Google, according to Brandt has built a commercial empire upon scraping free content from the internet and assigning relevant advertising to it. So, turning the tables, Brandt has used a loophole in the Google API to create an ad-free Google; in other words, he is scraping the scraper. He expcts to be sued, and even seems to hope for it. Brandt's point is not entirely capricious. Google does tread on shaky copyright ground. Even if its result links to not sufficiently copy content to infringe copyright, Google's cache represents a more arguable infringement. As TechDirt notes, it is probably in Google's interest to let this guy froth unchallenged. Few people are going to use his interface, so why raise potentially uncomfortable copyright issues?
Open-source, Ad-Free, and Possibly Illegal Google Clone
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(Page 2)22. use Google API's to query Google index.
"Do you search with Google a hundred times a day? Do you reach for Google before the phonebook, the dictionary or the newspaper? Do you think, just maybe, you're a Google frequent searcher?
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A searchbot that would never stop (e.g. Googlebot not saying "I crawled 10,000 from this domain, that's my limit")
Automatically generated random pages (e.g. from a dictionary database backend)
Automatically generated random links to more random pages from every random page (all on the same server, of course)
Maybe some way to hide that it's always the same script, if a bot cares about such (like by the use of Apache's htaccess file)
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Posted at 6:06AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Jaspal Singh
21. Y would anyone wanna block google ad..........;)
Posted at 6:06AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Toronto Student