sc0ttkclark
msg:3729937 | 3:04 pm on Aug 24, 2008 (gmt 0) |
I wasn't aware Google had an API that returned large amount of results to be used in this manner..
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razoras
msg:3730545 | 3:40 pm on Aug 25, 2008 (gmt 0) |
SO the battle continues, it seems. Ran fine after the last update but we're back again this week with more errors.
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sc0ttkclark
msg:3730570 | 4:01 pm on Aug 25, 2008 (gmt 0) |
Items were changed from <div class=g changed to <li class=g And interestingly enough they have no end </li> for the items :-)
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tedster
msg:3730653 | 5:10 pm on Aug 25, 2008 (gmt 0) |
A tool that I use at times has had three updates in the past week, just trying to keep up with the changes in the format.
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pageoneresults
msg:3730655 | 5:14 pm on Aug 25, 2008 (gmt 0) |
| A tool that I use at times has had three updates in the past week, just trying to keep up with the changes in the format. |
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Ah-ha, they've got some sort of dynamically generated thing going on with the output. Every 24 hours it is scheduled to generate a variation in the html output. Google just put it on auto-pilot after testing these past few weeks. < Me "Tin Hat" is always on during these types of discussions. :)
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sc0ttkclark
msg:3730663 | 5:27 pm on Aug 25, 2008 (gmt 0) |
Perhaps it's scheduled, perhaps it manual, but whatever it is, it's changing a lot in the past few weeks. It's also leaving a bloody trail of non-w3c compliant carnage (in the hopes to throw off conventional scraping).
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razoras
msg:3730768 | 7:58 pm on Aug 25, 2008 (gmt 0) |
Maybe it isn't intended to hurt scraping, even though that was my initial conclusion. It seems like unnecessary labor for too little benefit, and there's only so many ways you can change such simple pages in such minor ways that you can disrupt automated tools while presenting the same user experience.
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sc0ttkclark
msg:3731850 | 7:49 pm on Aug 26, 2008 (gmt 0) |
Format changed again
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razoras
msg:3731974 | 10:55 pm on Aug 26, 2008 (gmt 0) |
Yep! So what changed this time?
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sc0ttkclark
msg:3731977 | 11:12 pm on Aug 26, 2008 (gmt 0) |
I'm not telling the secrets to the universe as this is available to the public anyway but the <!--m--> and <li tag switched places.
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rustybrick
msg:3732563 | 5:09 pm on Aug 27, 2008 (gmt 0) |
JohnMu of Google said, this is likely related to [googleblog.blogspot.com...]
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randle
msg:3732586 | 5:40 pm on Aug 27, 2008 (gmt 0) |
| Experimentation is a very powerful tool, and we use it very widely to test potential changes to search. |
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Such as the results themselves maybe?
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