[kw-pm] How was YAPC::CA?

lloyd carr dcarr at sdf.lonestar.org
Mon Jun 2 23:26:02 CDT 2003


Which is why we need open source content as well as software.
If you have info that you want to give back to the community publish it in
xml, don't make people scrape for it ;-)

On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Andrew Kohlsmith wrote:

> Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 10:48:04 -0400
> From: Andrew Kohlsmith <akohlsmith-pm at benshaw.com>
> To: kw-pm at mail.pm.org
> Subject: Re: [kw-pm] How was YAPC::CA?
>
> > e.g., I scrape news.google.ca and grab the headlines and links from it
> > for my site.  Probably not legal since I don't link directly to google
> > from it, and I do link to the news sites.  But... I'm doing to them what
> > they're doing to those news companies.
>
> Google offers an API for running google searches free of charge, so long as
> it's noncommercial (and they charge for the API for commercial, so it's not
> like it's not available) -- I am not certain if the news part is part of
> it, but it may be worth checking out.
>
> Regards,
> Andrew
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