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Hi jchook, i would love to play with it and might try to port it to cloudflare worker for personal use :) I was thinking of exact same thing before bed last night when someone at work commented on how much revenue from Ad Google loses from "Im feeling lucky" feature which bypass all Ads

I'm not perfectly understanding of such legalities, so correct me if I am wrong, but wouldn't this be infringing on scraping territory?

Scraping may violate of Google's own acceptable use policy, but it's not illegal.

Sure, it's only okay for Google to scrape all websites, but not you scraping it. Got it.

Google is quite scrupulous about robots.txt.

There's plenty of hypocrisy at that company but this doesn't strike me as a case of it.

Scrupulous? Nobody is going to disallow / on Google's user-agent.

I'd suggest respecting Google's robots.txt as much as Google respects our DNT settings.

I too use a custom "search engine", because I want to use a different provider depending on language of query.