Big Bill wrote:

> On 7 Mar 2005 18:02:41 GMT, John Bokma <postmaster@castleamber.com>
> wrote:
>
>>Big Bill wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 10:03:21 +0000 (UTC), "small mouse"
>>> <swampdeer@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>"Buzby" <gb@pumpupthe.net> wrote in message
>>>>news:392ma9F5uo796U1@individual.net...
>>>>>
>>>>> > This morning I ran my usual Web Poisition report and now Google
is
>>>>> > blocking
>>>>> > all searches from our network with this message.
>>>>>
>>>>> AFAIK using Web Position is an abuse of Googles T&Cs so I wouldn't
>>hold
>>>>your
>>>>> breath . . .
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>I thought they say something like "Please use your automated
software
>>at
>>>>non-peak times"
>>>>
>>>>Anyway, its given me a chance to get a feel for MSN and Yahoo's
search
>>>>results.
>>>
>>> I think you'll find that all the automated rankers have a mode they
>>> can be switched to where they pretend to be another user agent, like
a
>>> browser for instance.
>>
>>That doesn't matter. It's still simple to recognise automatic
requests.
>>
>>> This is good for us as it enables us to get
>>> ranking results for our clients and it's bad for us as it skews
those
>>> same results.
>>
>>How?
>
> By pretending to be a genuine person search. How many times were a
> search made for a search term? Wromg answers, thanks to us.

Nah, "we" follow the trends, and each of us does his own searches.

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