Re: Question about the Google Terms of Service

[Brad Judy <win-hied () BRADJUDY COM>]

I don't have a specific link for you, I'm just relaying something that the
authors of the tool mentioned during their presentation on how to use it.
(Security B-Sides event in ATL)  IIRC, they at the time they said the Bing
terms of service didn't preclude using their tool.  

 

Brad

 

 

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[mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of James H. Moore
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 10:41 AM
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Subject: [SECURITY] Question about the Google Terms of Service

 

Hi Brad,

 

Can you point me in the direction the terms of service that I want to
violate.   I would also appreciate a person at Google (perhaps the person
who did the presentation), because I see Google wanting their cake (for web
administrators to suppress spam so that they can have higher quality
searches), and then make it difficult for people to find back linking and
spam on their domains (both technically and through terms of service.)  

 

I have tried various means of getting to the right people within Google to
see if web admins and Google could work together, but haven't gotten
anywhere.

 

I am just trying to keep tabs on RIT from Google (as a lot of back linking
will successful evade local detection by putting in code that only displays
the spam when the user agent is googlebot, and the IP is in the right range.

 

 

Jim

 

> Date:    Mon, 11 Jun 2012 10:43:04 -0600

> From:    Brad Judy <win-hied () BRADJUDY COM>

> Subject: Re: A substitute for Google Alerts / Circumventing Google
restrictions on spam suppression

 

> Having attended a presentation by this group, I'll note that their tool =

> does not necessarily conform to the terms of use for the services.  Use =

> wisely. =20

 

> Brad Judy