Tigrou - 5:38 pm on Mar 25, 2005 (gmt 0)

Atticus,

intersting post but I know for a fact that there are legal tools to meta-search Google and other SEs. Copernic is the best one I've seen. There are also other tools created "without approval" that Google hasn't stomped on.

Obviously the rules can be broken if it is in google's interest *ahem* or more likely if it hasn't come to their attention.

A point here that is skittered around is this :: if running AdSense is sign of a "quality check" (scraping aside) & MSN/Yahoo contextual searches are going to be used by scrapered-sites to reduce profile to google radar, then logically won't the G alorythm place more an emphasis on sites running AdSense?

Be easy to justify within the Plex and maybe even outside. Plus there is the minor aspect that this'll reduce the $$ for MSN/Yahoo.

CF
C'mon this is the third piece of meat I've put out this thread. More than one person's gotta bite on this thought. If not I'm taking my ball home and making my own thread :-p

[edited by: Tigrou at 5:43 pm (utc) on Mar. 25, 2005]