Correction: There is no ad scrubbing involved. The results pages Scroogle scrapes (output=ie) have no ads to begin with. And, for whatever it's worth, they trigger less cookies from Google (only the PREF cookie is used,…
It should be no surprise that Google's API's will never let users use the HTTP POST method. Those HTTP GET query strings are "valuable data"; Google is a business, not a charity. Hence Scroogle is doing something unique…
It seems like the Slashdot and Hacker News comments have missed perhaps a key point. If any of you know of other search engines that meet these two criteria, please let me know: 1. Queries are passed as…
Correction: There is no ad scrubbing involved. The results pages Scroogle scrapes (output=ie) have no ads to begin with. And, for whatever it's worth, they trigger less cookies from Google (only the PREF cookie is used,…
It should be no surprise that Google's API's will never let users use the HTTP POST method. Those HTTP GET query strings are "valuable data"; Google is a business, not a charity. Hence Scroogle is doing something unique…
It seems like the Slashdot and Hacker News comments have missed perhaps a key point. If any of you know of other search engines that meet these two criteria, please let me know: 1. Queries are passed as…