THE IMPORTANCE OF MAKING THE GOOGLE INDEX DOWNLOADABLE

[Steve Holden]

gen_tricomi wrote:
> THE IMPORTANCE OF MAKING THE GOOGLE INDEX DOWNLOADABLE
> 
> 
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> I write here to make a request on behalf of all the programmers on
> earth who have been or are intending to use the Google web search API
> for either research purposes or for the development of real world
> applications, that Google make their indexes downloadable.
> 
Frankly I doubt whether the average programmer possesses sufficient 
storage or has access to sufficient bandwidth to make downloading the 
Google indexes a practical proposition - let alone the cached page 
contents too.

There's also the tiny factoid that Google might regard their index 
structure, not to mention its contents, as proprietary.

Finally, how frequently would you propose to update your local copy? 
Google is adding the results of new spidering to their indices all the time.

A nice idea, perhaps, but surely completely impractical.

regards
  Steve
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