Guido> I don't think so -- the google.py code doesn't read the Google
Guido> output, it tells your browser to read it. Big difference.
Guido> (urlopen(), on the other hand, would be a no-no.)
Correct. I think they want to avoid automated systems that tweak a webpage,
see how placement is affected, tweak it again, etc. Also, if you notice
their links, they redirect through Google itself:
http://www.google.com/url?sa=U&start=1&q=http://www.python.org/&e=921
(I don't think they used to do this, but I'm not certain.) I'm sure they
use click frequency as a component of their relevance algorithm. A program
running through those links would adversely affect their scoring algorithm.
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