From: Bill White <billw@wolfram.com>
Subject: Re: google as a news server, redux
Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2002 19:07:16 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3ell936ij.fsf@wolfram.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2nvgelr4di.fsf@zsh.cs.rochester.edu> (ShengHuo ZHU's message of "Tue, 01 Jan 2002 19:19:37 -0500")
On Tue Jan 01 2002 at 18:19, ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu> said:
> Ami Fischman <usenet@fischman.org> writes:
>
> [...]
>
>> Google's TOS prohibits "offline searches", though they don't define
>> what that means. But SZ's ability to use google probably means
>> that google isn't blocking this on purpose (?). Any ideas what's
>> causing this? Could it be that google blocks certain IP blocks for
>> some reason? (I can search google via a webbrowser just fine from
>> this IP).
>
> Emm, it seems that google checks useragent. Accidentally and
> intentionally, I have 'useragent= Mozilla/4.7 [en] (Linux; I)' in my
> .wgetrc.
BINGO! Three cheers for ShengHuo ZHU!
Cheers -
bw
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-02 1:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-29 23:28 Bill White
2001-12-30 6:12 ` ShengHuo ZHU
2001-12-31 5:21 ` Bill White
2002-01-01 7:03 ` ShengHuo ZHU
2002-01-01 20:30 ` Ami Fischman
2002-01-02 0:19 ` ShengHuo ZHU
2002-01-02 0:53 ` Ami Fischman
2002-01-02 1:07 ` Bill White [this message]
2002-01-02 1:43 ` Ian Jones
2002-01-02 2:23 ` ShengHuo ZHU
2002-01-02 14:51 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2002-01-02 0:22 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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