RE: [PHP] make use of search results from public search engines

On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Kurt Boyer wrote: > My guess is that Google is smart enough not to allow this type > of query. I would bet that the Google search script checks to > make sure that the IP address of the machine that is sending > this query matches one of their internal machines. If it isn't, > nothing is sent. This is pretty common practice. I don't think they look for IP. I've done this sort of thing before (more of a 'is this domain in there?' for a client who owned about 7000 different domains). I didn't have any problem, though I didn't check Google. But mostly, if they checked the IP address of the request machine and restricted it to only one of their machines, only the people at Google could do a search, and I doubt that is what they are hoping for. They might check the *referer* (fat lot of good it would do them, too, as I saw Koo fixing that), but the IP address would have to be of the person (in this case, machine) doing the search, not of the referring machine. Hans Anderson ~ me@hansanderson.com PO Box 426, Missoula, MT 59806 | PHP, Search Engines, SQL (800)397-9116 / (406)549-6524 | Databases, Flash Multimedia, http://www.hansanderson.com | Killer Audio Production, http://www.goofiness.com | Minty Fresh Breath.