platinumdude
9th March 2011, 08:54 PM
March 9, 2011: Here we go again...
We regret to announce that Google changed their output format once again. The last time this happened was in November, and we were down for a day. During that time we looked for the simplest remaining Google format we could find, reprogrammed our parser, and ended up with something that worked. However, the file we fetched from Google was three times more bloated for the same information, as compared to the previous format we used, and we are still not happy about this.
Now it looks like even more bloat. We have to take a closer look at the new format and see if we can program around it. Check back in a day or two.
Noticed this when startpage.com is not responding. They must be overloaded with the extra traffic from scroogle users.
We regret to announce that Google changed their output format once again. The last time this happened was in November, and we were down for a day. During that time we looked for the simplest remaining Google format we could find, reprogrammed our parser, and ended up with something that worked. However, the file we fetched from Google was three times more bloated for the same information, as compared to the previous format we used, and we are still not happy about this.
Now it looks like even more bloat. We have to take a closer look at the new format and see if we can program around it. Check back in a day or two.
Noticed this when startpage.com is not responding. They must be overloaded with the extra traffic from scroogle users.