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Re: [Lynx-dev] Google question
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Thomas Dickey |
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Re: [Lynx-dev] Google question |
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Tue, 08 May 2012 04:30:40 -0400 |
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On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 09:38:00AM +0200, Helmut Hullen wrote:
> Hallo, address@hidden,
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> Du meintest am 03.05.12:
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> >> $ lynx -useragent=Lynx -dump -nolist 'google.co.uk/search?q=5*4'
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> >> Your search - 5*4 - did not match any documents.
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> [...]
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> >> Looks like not Lynx's fault then. Good luck taking that up with
> >> Google...
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> > User agent "lynxx" works. They're deliberately blocking lynx.
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> Same behaviour for "google.de". Nasty.
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> And nastier: "links" and "w3m" are not blocked.
iirc, "w3m" sends an empty user-agent. (e)links(2) doesn't (at least in
the one I checked). Google's results are well known to be biased in any
case, but a search on
google lynx "user agent"
will refresh your memory in this instance.
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