when elGoog founders sergio and barry first arrived in america, with a fiver in their pockets, long before they created a 50 billion dollar company (that’s five-oh baby), they might have enjoyed watching something like this happen…a dedicated elGoog watcher named daniel brandt has released the source code to a “google scraper” ….it uses elGoog’s little known ‘ie minimal interface’ which allows users to bypass elGoog’s cookie, and in turn, all of the text ads….but that ain’t making elGoog happy… funny how their bright minds created it to begin with, along with their unpopular wall flower api…

first, in case it goes away from the internet, here is a copy of the source code for you…however, if - as highly regarded computer scientists say - ‘you know jack shit about computers’ then you can visit this site to see and use a working example of the proxy interface (read ‘ad free elGoog’)….here’s an explanation of how and why it all works…

…but the real humor in this tale is how brandt communicated his position to the press, as told to the register out of the uk…”Legally, Google probably has the right to block anyone they want. And legally, we believe that as a tiny nonprofit with an interest in Google’s violations of privacy, we have the right to access Google’s publicly-available data any way we want…let’s start with the fact that Google scrapes billions of web pages and doesn’t ask permission before making the cache copies available. This scraping is used as a carrier for the ads that make Google stinkin’ rich.”

what’s that sound elGoog? do you hear it? i think it’s the thin ice breaking beneath your feet….you better just hurry up with that personal web services internet-os thing already…clock is ticking…

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