Google search engine

To investigate using our knowledge of CSS selectors, we will scrape Google search results. According to the Alexa data used in Chapter 4, Concurrent Downloading, google.com is the world's most popular website, and conveniently, its structure is simple and straightforward to scrape.

International Google may redirect to a country-specific version, depending on your location. In these examples, Google is set to the Romanian version, so your results may look slightly different.

Here is the Google search homepage loaded with browser tools to inspect the form:

We can see here that the search query is stored in an input with ...

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