[Python-Dev] Python sidebar for Mozilla/Netscape (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Fri, 05 Apr 2002 12:32:38 -0500

Correct. I think they want to avoid automated systems that tweak a webpage, see how placement is affected, tweak it again, etc.

That would take forever (you'd have to wait for a second visit from their crawler).

I think they want to avoid added-value websites that don't mention the Google brand -- it would be like redistributing Python but claiming you wrote it yourself.

Also, if you notice their links, they redirect through Google itself:

http://www.google.com/url?sa=U&start=1&q=http://www.python.org/&e=921 (I don't think they used to do this, but I'm not certain.)

Me too.

I'm sure they use click frequency as a component of their relevance algorithm. A program running through those links would adversely affect their scoring algorithm.

Indeed. And I don't want to affect their scoring algorithm -- it's their most valuable feature!

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