Jim Roepcke raises a good point about the Google boxes that are starting to appear on UserLand weblogs and other places: They're going to undercut Google's ability to rank pages, because every box artificially increases the rankings for the links in that box.

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You're welcome. I'm planning to use Google's API to feed my News Aggregator. I wish it went deeper than 10 links, but it will probably be useful for the right search terms. It'll also be nice to write code that interfaces with a search engine without needing an HTML scraper.

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