did you know: curl google search not possible

frenchn00b · 10-02-2007, 03:42 PM

I just discover that. I guess I understand that it is to make restricted the use of google and avoid abuses. That s very wise from them and is nice thing at least to give more "privacy".

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Google
Error

Please see Google's Terms of Service posted at http://www.google.com/terms_of_service.html

If you believe that you have received this response in error, please {report} your problem. However, please make sure to take a look at our Terms of Service (http://www.google.com/terms_of_service.html). In your email, please send us the entire code displayed below. Please also send us any information you may know about how you are performing your Google searches-- for example, "I'm using the Opera browser on Linux to do searches from home. My Internet access is through a dial-up account I have with the FooCorp ISP." or "I'm using the Konqueror browser on Linux to search from my job at myFoo.com. My machine's IP address is XXXXXX, but all of myFoo's web traffic goes through some kind of proxy server whose IP address is XXXXXXX" (If you don't know any information like this, that's OK. But this kind of information can help us track down problems, so please tell us what you can.)

x_terminat_or_3 · 10-02-2007, 05:21 PM

It is no surprise. See ROBOTS.TXT (Google,or WikiPedia, or RFC)

matthewg42 · 10-02-2007, 05:52 PM

...except it's based on the User Agent string, which is sent by the client, so it can be easily spoofed. Not that I endorse such action.