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Re: [a bit OT] Automate a (G o o g l e) search from a list of strings

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On Wed, Sep 20, 2023 at 08:35:54PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote:
> Tom Browder (12023-09-20):
> > What if you used an equilavent script but increased and randomized time
> > between each search string?  Or do you think just the single search is
> > enough to trigger them?
> 
> We can try to exercise some common sense, in particular by comparing to
> similar situations. For example, if you take something that does not
> belong to you, but do it at night, when everybody is sleeping and being
> very careful you do not make a step squeak or break the laser beams, is
> it still stealing? I think most people would consider the answer to the
> question whether what you describes breaks Google's terms of use is the
> same.
> 
> Now, if your interrogation is whether we think you would get away with
> it. Well, as it is roughly equivalent to asking if I think you are
> smarter than the people at Google, I will respectfully decline to
> answer.

Or possibly Google doesn't care /that/ much. Or even possibly they
welcome the degree of lock-in they achieve in "markets" which usually
are beyond their reach (there was a time when Microsoft was definitely
doing this: their license numbers were so easily guessable that it
almost surely wasn't a honest mistake).

Reality is often even messier :)

Cheers
-- 
t

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[a bit OT] Automate a (G o o g l e) search from a list of strings steve <dlist@bluewin.ch> - 2023-09-19 16:50 +0200
  Re: [a bit OT] Automate a (G o o g l e) search from a list of strings Michael Kjörling <2695bd53d63c@ewoof.net> - 2023-09-19 16:50 +0200
  Re: [a bit OT] Automate a (G o o g l e) search from a list of strings Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2023-09-19 17:00 +0200
    Re: [a bit OT] Automate a (G o o g l e) search from a list of strings Jason <jason@7748229.xyz> - 2023-09-19 19:30 +0200
    Re: [a bit OT] Automate a (G o o g l e) search from a list of strings steve <dlist@bluewin.ch> - 2023-09-20 08:20 +0200
      Re: [a bit OT] Automate a (G o o g l e) search from a list of strings Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2023-09-20 10:50 +0200
        Re: [a bit OT] Automate a (G o o g l e) search from a list of strings steve <dlist@bluewin.ch> - 2023-09-20 11:40 +0200
        Re: [a bit OT] Automate a (G o o g l e) search from a list of strings Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2023-09-20 17:50 +0200
          Re: [a bit OT] Automate a (G o o g l e) search from a list of strings Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2023-09-20 20:40 +0200
            Re: [a bit OT] Automate a (G o o g l e) search from a list of strings <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-09-20 21:20 +0200
            Re: [a bit OT] Automate a (G o o g l e) search from a list of strings Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2023-09-20 23:00 +0200
              Re: [a bit OT] Automate a (G o o g l e) search from a list of strings The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2023-09-21 00:00 +0200
                Re: [a bit OT] Automate a (G o o g l e) search from a list of strings Tamas Sohamar <sohamartamas@gmail.com> - 2023-09-21 07:10 +0200
  Re: [a bit OT] Automate a (G o o g l e) search from a list of strings Karl Vogel <vogelke@pobox.com> - 2023-09-20 04:10 +0200
    Re: [a bit OT] Automate a (G o o g l e) search from a list of strings Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-09-20 04:40 +0200

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