in reply to Random Background from Net

Google's terms of service at:http://www.google.com/terms_of_service.html include:

"You may not take the results from a Google search and reformat and display them"
and
"You may not send automated queries of any sort to Google's system without express permission in advance from Google"
Which means that it may be prudent to consider using a different search engine.

gav^

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Re: Re: Random Background from Net
by hossman (Prior) on Mar 19, 2002 at 05:38 UTC
    I'm familiar with the TOS, but as I mentioned on use.perl.org, I don't think the existense of some code violates the TOS -- people violate the TOS.

    But thanx for reminding me, I ment to put a disclaimer in the script, and I have now done so.

[reply]
      I have just written a similar script which avoids the TOS issue by using the Net::Google interface to do the searching and sets the image in a gnome compliant way .
      http://www.amias.org.uk/stuff/goggle.pl
      enjoy !
      Toodle-pip
      Amias
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