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Re: [Lynx-dev] Google question


From: Thomas Dickey
Subject: Re: [Lynx-dev] Google question
Date: Tue, 08 May 2012 04:30:40 -0400
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17)

On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 09:38:00AM +0200, Helmut Hullen wrote:
> Hallo, address@hidden,
> 
> Du meintest am 03.05.12:
> 
> 
> >> $ lynx -useragent=Lynx -dump -nolist 'google.co.uk/search?q=5*4'
> >>
> >> Your search - 5*4 - did not match any documents.
> 
> [...]
> 
> >> Looks like not Lynx's fault then.  Good luck taking that up with
> >> Google...
> 
> > User agent "lynxx" works. They're deliberately blocking lynx.
> 
> Same behaviour for "google.de". Nasty.
> 
> And nastier: "links" and "w3m" are not blocked.

iirc, "w3m" sends an empty user-agent.  (e)links(2) doesn't (at least in
the one I checked).  Google's results are well known to be biased in any
case, but a search on

        google lynx "user agent"

will refresh your memory in this instance.

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey <address@hidden>
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net

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