From: James Britt <james_b@...>
Date: 2005-10-07T11:35:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Google Calculator command line tool

Austin Ziegler wrote:
> 
> For what it's worth, it's probably better to look at reimplementing
> this using the Google WS API, because Google looks down (harshly) on
> screen scraping.

Is that what this is?

I believe Google is concerned with the extraction and reuse of search 
data to drive (part of) another site or application.  I see the Google 
Calculator app to be an implementation of a Web browser: Make an HTTP 
request, get back the text, and render it.


James