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Interesting Tool

Its been done before, but I havent seen this one

         

Webmaster_1

5:50 pm on Aug 6, 2002 (gmt 0)



I'm a new member here so I was looking through the threads, and I've got a fair amount of questions to ask. I'll try not to ask 'em all at once and get everyone annoyed .. he he

I came accross a threat in this forum regarding a "Google Dance Tool", I tried to reply in that particular thead but it was locked.

I was wondering if this is actually an effective method for monitoring the dance.

I've noticed in particular that it has the ability to watch the 5 Datacenters as opposed to the WWW servers. Does this make a significant difference? How do they vary during the update (the WWW servers and the Datacenters).

Thanks

[edited by: Marcia at 6:25 pm (utc) on Aug. 6, 2002]
[edit reason] link to tool edited out per TOS [/edit]

Marcia

6:31 pm on Aug 6, 2002 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



Welcome to WebmasterWorld, Webmaster_1.

The reason the thread was locked is that we no longer allow posting URLs for those tools. It's in the Charter for the Google forum.

First of all, it's in Google's TOS that they don't like automated queries, so it's out of respect for them.

And then, we were starting to be barraged constantly with links to those tools, most of which were promotional URL drops, which are not allowed according our TOS so that we stay with productive, informative discussions and avoid becoming commercialized.

Again, welcome, We hope you find the board informative and helpful, and look forward to your contributions to the discussions as well as hope we can answer your questions for you.

NFFC

6:36 pm on Aug 6, 2002 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



>Does this make a significant difference?

Yes, you can get even less work done :)

The only Google that matters is www, I have stopped even looking at the others as there is no point. I would certainly not look at other "Googles" without using a proxy and never ever use a "tool".

Welcome to WebmasterWorld Webmaster_1

snafu

3:33 pm on Aug 7, 2002 (gmt 0)



Why all this tool silliness? Learn enough scripting to do your own parsing, and use Wget to fetch from Google.
There are a zillion command-line options to Wget. Find the GNU user manual.
The most important is the option that suppresses or changes the User-agent. Otherwise Google won't let you in.