Legal Question in Technology Law in Connecticut

Internet requests
I created a program that requests information from a particular website. Example: I have a list of words and I want google to give me a reply, So my list of words is 200,000 words (alot), my program goes out and enters the word into the google.com search bar and then returns the top 5 results and i store it in a file for future viewing, well 200,000 words would take about 33 hours of request time, and surely slowing the site down. This I can fix,(by adding a sleep time between so many words) but requsting such a large amount of data, will get me in trouble? The data will not be used in dishonest way. It would be like I googled everyword all 200,000 of 'em one by one by hand. and simply copied and pasted it into a text file. thanks

Asked on 9/28/05, 9:11 pm

David Anderson Anderson Business Law LLC

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Re: Internet requests

In order to advise you , I would need to review both the TOU for Google as well as your ISP.

They may have bans on automated programs and limits on searches which you may be violating.

Have you posed an anonymous inquiry to Google?

Answered on 9/28/05, 9:50 pm

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