
Analyzing the Business
Requirements for Black Hat Auto-Googling
Although we won’t attempt to justify the absolute need to automate Google
querying and page scraping here, we will point out that it’s illegal, unethical, and
in some cases, as in securing your Web site or customer’s Web site, unavoidably
necessary.
Google sets limitations that limit your true ability to monitor your Web
applications with complete visibility.That said, we will demonstrate techniques
that can be implemented to “more ethically” automatically query Google or
avoid the dreaded (and alleged) Google IP blacklist. (Supposedly, a “living”
Google blacklist exists to log and limit ...