Re: php pulling info from other sites

From: Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 23:53:45 +0000
Subject: Re: php pulling info from other sites
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> What about using php to send a query to a search engine and then parsing > the results and displaying them on your site? Would this be considered > copyright infringement? Anyone have any opinions on this? Quite likely. Search engines live on advertising revenue, so they'd probably either shut you down or sue you if you got much traffic. In any case where you are pulling content from another site, make sure they've explicitly granted you permission to do so. Usually getting permission will also make it easier to write your interface - often you'll get access to something like an XML feed which is much faster and more reliable than parsing HTML.

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