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Sorry, I have to vent off a bit.
I'm trying to build a language school and am developing a web site for it. so for the past two days I've been writing a function that translates a small sentence from one language to another with the help of google, used to verify the existence of the translated phrase.. works like a charm, I can now fill the site with tests that will help users exercise their knowledge. of course the thing queries google quite a bit from a single machine perspective but I thought that from google's point of view, this had to be like a drop in the ocean in terms of network traffic. Not!! they banned my IP afer a few minutes of execution

So google won the search engine battle, has most of the internet content indexed on their hard drives, makes billions of dollars with other people content, but won't let us do automated research. I HATE THOSE PRICKS. I found a workaround using proxies but would appreciate if you guys have any suggestions.

cheers

hey thanks for answering.

Other search engine prolly work the same.. and all this because of people that spam or run malicious code on the net. I hate them too. But considering the work I've put into this only to process the html served by google, I'd rather continue with the proxies. The problem is that they can ban my IP too. So I'm into building a automated process that will use a list of proxies as opposed to only one. So much for the work on the language web site ha! anyone knows how to break captchas? apparently WebVisum can. damn, I feel like I'm turning into a scriptkiddy or something

aren't there other web services that you have api access to?

google api seems to do just that, but that is limited too...

on the other hand, yahoo search engine doesn't seem to put any limit on automated queries. Stupid me, I've been querying yahoo finance 24 hours a day since last may...

could there be a yahoo api also? gonna find out right now

thanks guys

http://developer.yahoo.com/

I love those guys