Re: Copyright issue with RevGoURL commands?

2006-01-30 Thread Mark Wieder
Rick- Sunday, January 29, 2006, 5:25:23 PM, you wrote: I just went to this link to check it out. You are only allowed 1000 queries per day, and the API is only for Non-Commercial use only. But wait - it gets worse. Actually, it's *your id* that is limited to a certain number of queries per

Re: Copyright issue with RevGoURL commands?

2006-01-29 Thread Rick Harrison
On the upside, Google does provide an API for developers to use for such purposes: http://www.google.com/apis/ -- Richard Gaskin I just went to this link to check it out. You are only allowed 1000 queries per day, and the API is only for Non-Commercial use only. Those pictures of the

Re: Copyright issue with RevGoURL commands?

2006-01-26 Thread Dan Shafer
(Usual I'm not a lawyer disclaimer) I do not think it is possible for Google or anyone else to complain about you accessing their site from a platform other than a Web browser if you're not repackaging or otherwise taking unfair advantage of their service. My opinion would be that this is

Copyright issue with RevGoURL commands?

2006-01-25 Thread Stgoldberg
Does anyone know if there is a copyright issue with using the powerful RevGoURL command to access websites using known Internet search engines? For instance, if one is interested in dogs one can access Google simply by writing: RevGoURL http://www.google.com; or RevGoURL

Re: Copyright issue with RevGoURL commands?

2006-01-25 Thread Peter T. Evensen
I'm not a lawyer, but I don't see how one could copyright a URL, which is what one would have to do for you to get into problems. I believe Google is licensing an SDK so people can use there services. At the very worst, you'd have to license the SDK so you could legitimately generate search

Re: Copyright issue with RevGoURL commands?

2006-01-25 Thread Richard Gaskin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know if there is a copyright issue with using the powerful RevGoURL command to access websites using known Internet search engines? For instance, if one is interested in dogs one can access Google simply by writing: It's not so much a copyright concern

Re: Copyright issue with RevGoURL commands?

2006-01-25 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Richard, Le 25 janv. 06 à 19:30, Richard Gaskin a écrit : It's not so much a copyright concern as one of lost revenue. Search engine sites make their money from advertising, and automated searches nullify the value of such advertising. As you know it, I was concerned by this possible