Comments on: Neat PageRank Hack

By: Jinumadhavan

Jinumadhavan — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 09:50:00 +0000

thanks,nice post,waiting for more good posts

By: Start online business

Start online business — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 17:48:23 +0000

Wow...I was acutally looking something for this. I was very tempted in buying programs that will do this for you ie PRPowler.

Thanks for the link.

Mike

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 31 May 2004 17:32:12 +0000

I don’t think that they use the Google API, especially since you can not use it to strip Pageranks if I recall correctly.

Every search takes a couple of seconds… As long as it takes, they might as well load every page with the toolbar and grab the pagerank info from the cache. That would fix the checksum problem at the same time

btw – Proogle is now just ‘Prog’

By: hulkster

hulkster — Wed, 12 May 2004 20:15:29 +0000

John,

You mention that Proogle probably violates Google’s TOS, since they are almost certainly doing more than 1,000 searches/day. I assume that number is a reference to the number of queries you are allowed to do with a Google API key … and while I’m not a lawyer, I believe that if they WERE using the API to get this data, they would be legit (ignoring the confusion surrounding if it is legit to do page rank lookups now that the checksum is broken).

However, they are almost certainly doing “screen scapes” – i.e. send the request to http://www.google.com rather than through the API, and this is clearly in violated of the TOS as can be seen at http://www.google.com/terms_of_service.html

BTW, it IS a neat page, the comment at the bottom “Don’t sue” is hilarious, and it would be nice if Google displayed this on their results (they do for directory stuff).

Having written the above, I’m still surprised that Google hasn’t shut these guys down yet!