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Re:1 Database Containing 35,000,000 Google Profiles. Implica... by Joakal on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @01:02AM (#2582944)
Every search engine does this, I'm not sure what the implications are if it's public?

Data mining is quite possible but there's an expectation that the profiles are public so no one privacy-conscious will be putting sensitive information in it.

I'm curious to know if anyone supposedly have ways of restricting 'mass-downloading'? I don't know of any website that does short of rate-limiting requests from a single source.

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Re:1 Database Containing 35,000,000 Google Profiles. Implica... by hessenwolf on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @03:29AM (#2583224)
There is rate limiting and also some regularity testing, e.g., one site would only let me download if I scheduled randomly and less than a certain frequency.
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