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Bing protects itself against Google scraper

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caribguy

5:49 am on Sep 11, 2009 (gmt 0)

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This made me chuckle:

Google search for Bing [google.com]

This is Google's cache of [bing.com...] It is a snapshot of the page as it appeared on 11 Sep 2009 03:15:43 GMT. The current page could have changed in the meantime.
These search terms are highlighted: bing
[..]
Pardon the interruption
We ask that you view the characters in the following picture and enter them in the box below.
[..]
Why do I need to do that?
Typing the characters in the picture above helps us ensure that a person, not a program, is performing a search.
Why is that important? Some programs perform repeated searches for malicious purposes. Preventing those automated searches ensures that everyone else has faster, more reliable search results. Your computer, or another one in your network, has done so much searching lately that we're concerned an automated program might be at work.

StoutFiles

7:12 am on Sep 11, 2009 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



That is interesting. Some Meta tags would prevent the goofy results from appearing.