Unauthorized use of the Google API?

[jetboy_70]

The title says it all really: jsearch.co.uk
Look like butchered Google results to me, including Freshbot crawls, but I don't see a Google logo. Thoughts?

[edited by: engine at 2:40 pm (utc) on Nov. 20, 2002]
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[bill1234]

Weird - I haven't seen somewhere that's been able to hack in like that before.

Seen a couple of places that sneakily use frames to steal google results though - have a look at www.imbq.com/search2.asp and search85.com/ to see what I mean.

What I don't get is why Google doesn't just spot them by IP number and block them? I mean you'd think it would be as obvious as the positionchecking programs, and considering it also sells its results it can't do their business much good.

[edited by: engine at 2:41 pm (utc) on Nov. 20, 2002]
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[RBuzz]

If they use the Google API, how is this a violation? I'm afraid I don't understand.

Of course, if they are using the Google API this engine will only be good for ten searches a day, since it gets back 1000 results at a time.

[jetboy_70]

API T&Cs state that the functionality is not for commercial use or on services which compete with Google itself. If they're not a Google licensee then they fail on both counts. They don't seem to be constrained by the 10,000 result limit though.

Just to clarify; I'm asking here rather than accusing...