On Wed, Sep 20, 2023 at 08:35:54PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > Tom Browder (12023-09-20): > > What if you used an equilavent script but increased and randomized time > > between each search string? Or do you think just the single search is > > enough to trigger them? > > We can try to exercise some common sense, in particular by comparing to > similar situations. For example, if you take something that does not > belong to you, but do it at night, when everybody is sleeping and being > very careful you do not make a step squeak or break the laser beams, is > it still stealing? I think most people would consider the answer to the > question whether what you describes breaks Google's terms of use is the > same. > > Now, if your interrogation is whether we think you would get away with > it. Well, as it is roughly equivalent to asking if I think you are > smarter than the people at Google, I will respectfully decline to > answer.
Or possibly Google doesn't care /that/ much. Or even possibly they welcome the degree of lock-in they achieve in "markets" which usually are beyond their reach (there was a time when Microsoft was definitely doing this: their license numbers were so easily guessable that it almost surely wasn't a honest mistake). Reality is often even messier :) Cheers -- t
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