Talk:Yahoo! search interface: Difference between revisions
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(New page: ==TOS violation== This task violates [http://www.google.com/accounts/TOS Google's TOS]. <blockquote> '''5. Use of the Services by you''' : 5.3 You agree not to access (or attempt to acc...) |
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--[[User:Kevin Reid|Kevin Reid]] 10:51, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
: I'd say just put a warning at the top of the page that says something along the lines of '''Usage of this code violates section 5.3 of Google's Terms of Service, unless you have special arrangements with Google''', but I'm pretty sure that folks who have such special arrangements also get access to a different API, and probly an authentication key or other token.
: So what's the purpose of the task? Is it to call an API and perform some sort of scraping operation on the result? Can someone whip up a low-footprint web script I can put on Rosetta Code's server as an alternative? Or is the task's value specifically in that it aids automate Google searches, and redirecting to a different server and API makes it useless? If the latter is the case, then I would suggest we delete it. Not because I believe it's necessarily inappropriate to describe how to do something that a TOS or other rule says one isn't allowed to do, but because if we piss Google off, that's 68% of our traffic that gets lost if Google decides to remove us from their search index.
: Again, if the problem is the need to interact with an API on a remote server, and do some web scraping on the results, I'll put up any suitable and lightweight script provided on the server for people to test against.
: In the mean time, I'm erasing the code, and modifying robots.txt to not index anything but /wiki/*. (I should have done that ages ago, anyway; Google indexes all the results of clicking on the Edit links, as it stands.) --[[User:Short Circuit|Short Circuit]] 12:34, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
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