nbbw - an open source Google - without the ads

TadW · 01-11-2005, 07:50 AM

I found this via The Register: Google watcher Daniel Brandt, who curates the NameBase archive, has released the source code to a Google scraper. Brandt has been making an ad-free proxy available for two years using Google's little known minimal "ie" interface. By using this proxy, users bypass both Google's notorious "2038" cookie (that's when it expires) and the text ads.

You can find an explanation here and try out the proxy here.

Zire · 01-11-2005, 09:01 AM

Its okay but it only returns 100 results.

TadW · 01-11-2005, 10:46 AM

Thanks for pointing this out, Zire. Probably a limitation of the proxy test server. Since the sources are includes, you could easily change that limitation, recompile, and use it on another (your own?) server.

01-11-2005, 07:50 AM	#1
TadW Uebermensch Posts: 2,583 Karma: 1094606 Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Italy Device: Kindle	nbbw - an open source Google - without the ads I found this via The Register: Google watcher Daniel Brandt, who curates the NameBase archive, has released the source code to a Google scraper. Brandt has been making an ad-free proxy available for two years using Google's little known minimal "ie" interface. By using this proxy, users bypass both Google's notorious "2038" cookie (that's when it expires) and the text ads. You can find an explanation here and try out the proxy here.

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01-11-2005, 09:01 AM	#2
Zire Fanatic Posts: 522 Karma: 14050 Join Date: May 2003 Location: Astoria, NY Device: Zire 71	Its okay but it only returns 100 results.

01-11-2005, 10:46 AM	#3
TadW Uebermensch Posts: 2,583 Karma: 1094606 Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Italy Device: Kindle	Thanks for pointing this out, Zire. Probably a limitation of the proxy test server. Since the sources are includes, you could easily change that limitation, recompile, and use it on another (your own?) server.

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