There is plenty of malware that finds victims by looking at the results of google searches. Google seems to think that they have an obligation to prevent the indiscriminate spread of self-replicating infovores. Fucking Censorship if you ask me.
They might not want someone to build a large database of pageranks.
Re:Subtle bug in Google can get you banned
by rick_2047 on Sunday October 03, 2010 @05:29AM
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ok, wouldn't that require like a very very very long time? Google has a dadabase probably terabytes big and if someone does want it can't they do something like what DDG does? I believe they get their searches by yahoo for free
If they do, isn't that precisely what Google would want? Isn't it only the rate and volume of requests that are a problem?