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Playing with Google

Posted by Hemos on from the fun-things-for-the-weekend dept.

Chromatic sent over the links to Tara Calishain's Happy Google Hacks page. It's basically a collection of interesting ways to do searching - something fun for the weekend. I'm thinking of preparing dinner Sunday based on the recipe tool.

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  1. Sanctioned by Romancer · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Does google embraces this form of use?
    What about all the legal bs lately about altering the look of a website, does this apply to search results?

    If I wrote software that altered the google search results page to remove the paid listings would they have a legal standing to object, or would the simple fact that it's a search result page and I'm supposed to try and get the information I want, and only what I want(ie: +enhance +performance +car -porn)nullify this legal precedent?

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    1. Re:Sanctioned by presroi · · Score: 5, Insightful
      If you look at the site, hes using Google API, using his google API key. Google opened their API to allow stuff like this. It's perfectly legal and he has their permission.


      When I went to this site (buzztools) the time I wasn't fully slashdotted, I was prompted for a Google API key.

      Am I just paranoid when mentioning the chance that such a funny tool might just be great for collecting other people's Google API access nummers/codes? Right now, google does not charge you but... Hmm, I am too paranoid.