Polling Search Engines

[Richard Gaskin]

Marty Knapp wrote:
> Is it possible from within Rev to poll search engines for data?

Possible?  Yes.

Allowable in Google's Terms of Service?  Debatable:

<http://www.google.com/terms_of_service.html>

     No Automated Querying

     You may not send automated queries of any sort to Google's
     system without express permission in advance from Google.
     Note that "sending automated queries" includes, among other
     things:

       * using any software which sends queries to Google to
         determine how a website or webpage "ranks" on Google
         for various queries;
       * "meta-searching" Google; and
       * performing "offline" searches on Google.


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