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Google Deactivates Web Search API

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Post by audiohihack »

userbinator wrote: post #84
oneeyedpigeon wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

God, page scraping is horrible at the best of times but, as anyone who's ever viewed source on one of their pages must be thinking, scraping Google markup must be hell-on-earth.

If you have an HTML parser, it's just a matter of selecting the right DOM nodes.

Def not that easy with Google. It is not uncommon to see 20+ serp variations on a given day if you are crawling at high volume, changing user agents, etc. The whole process is fairly terrible to parse consistently.

Re: Google Deactivates Web Search API

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Post by jayjay1010 »

chrismorgan wrote: post #37
jayjay1010 wrote: post #35

This is terrible news and with Pagerank also disabled recently, now 2 features of our domain health testing service has been crippled. Pagerank was easy to replace with moz rank but this data was irreplaceable due to the fact that it was specific and unique to google. Rip one of our main tools.

PageRank had been completely useless for a couple of years, and practically useless for several years before that.

That depends on your reason of usage, as a guide to web ranks its been obsolete as you say for years, but as a cheap and quick measure of a domains potential (for passing link juice or to compare link juice between two domains) in comparison against another, Pagerank had some value.
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