[Linux-bruxelles] adieu scroogle scrapper?

[Benoit Mortier]

Le Tuesday 11 May 2010 15:08:41 agnes, vous avez écrit :
> Bonjour,
> mon interface de recherche préféré m'informe qu'il n'existera peut-être
> plus dans le futur :(
>
> http://www.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/nbbw.cgi
>
> > We regret to announce that our Google scraper may have to be
> > permanently retired, thanks to a change at Google. It depends on
> > whether Google is willing to restore the simple interface that we've
> > been scraping since Scroogle started five years ago. Actually, we've
> > been using that interface for scraping since Google-Watch.org began
> > in 2002.
> >
> > This interface (here's a sample from years ago) was remarkably stable
> > all that time. During those eight years there were only about five
> > changes that required some programming adjustments. Also, this
> > interface was available at every Google data center in exactly the
> > same form, which allowed us to use 700 IP addresses for Google.
> >
> > That interface was at www.google.com/ie but on May 10, 2010 they took
> > it down and inserted a redirect to /toolbar/ie8/sidebar.html. It used
> > to have a search box, and the results it showed were generic during
> > that entire time. It didn't show the snippets unless you moused-over
> > the links it produced (they were there for our program, so that was
> > okay), and it has never had any ads. Our impression was that these
> > results were from Google's basic algorithms, and that extra features
> > and ads were added on top of these generic results. Three years ago
> > Google launched "Universal Search," which meant that they added
> > results from other Google services on their pages. But this simple
> > interface we were using was not affected at all.
> >
> > Now that interface is gone. It is not possible to continue Scroogle
> > unless we have a simple interface that is stable. Google's main
> > consumer-oriented interface that they want everyone to use is too
> > complex, and changes too frequently, to make our scraping operation
> > possible.
> >
> > Over the next few days we will attempt to contact Google and
> > determine whether the old interface is gone as a matter of policy at
> > Google, or if they simply have it hidden somewhere and will tell us
> > where it is so that we can continue to use it.
> >
> > Thank you for your support during these past five years. Check back
> > in a week or so; if we don't hear from Google by next week, I think
> > we can all assume that Google would rather have no Scroogle, and no
> > privacy for searchers, at all.
>
> Si quelqu'un a des astuces pour d'autres bonnes méthodes de recherche
> sur le net, à l'abri de pub et en respect de vie privée je suis
> preneuse.

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