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Scraping Google To See What Happens
By Andy Beal
Expert Author
Article Date: 2005-01-12
John Battelle points to an act of rebellion by Google nemesis, Danial Brandt. Brandt has created a tool that scrapes the Google results so they can be stripped of all AdWords ads.
Why?
""The commercialization of the web became possible only because tens of thousands of noncommercial sites made the web interesting in the first place," he writes. "All search engines should make a stable, bare-bones, ad-free, easy-to-scrape version of their results available for those who want to set up nonprofit repeaters.
Even if it cuts into their ad profits slightly, there's no easier way to give back some of what they stole from us.""
This could get interesting.
About the Author:
Andy Beal is President & CEO of Fortune Interactive a full-service interactive marketing agency specializing in search marketing and blog marketing. Considered one of the world's most respected interactive and search engine marketing experts, Andy has worked with many Fortune 1000 companies such as Motorola, CitiFinancial, Lowes, Alaska Air, DeWALT, NBC and Experian. You can read his internet marketing blog at Marketing Pilgrim and reach him at andy.beal@gmail.com.
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