Posted by Brian Cryer on 05/09/07 09:28

<bencoe@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1178636308.324451.81430@w5g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
> Hey Brian.
>
> I just read through Google's terms of use, and couldn't find something
> that explicitly indicated that, I guess I'll just wait and see if
> Google harasses me.

Just checked. I think your right (& safe).

> Yah. I'm still working on getting more sites crawled, also, results
> will hopefully get more relevant as people vote.
>
> Unfortunately, signing up is necessary to vote and suggest sites, I
> think this is necessary for two main reasons:
> 1) It stops tons of spam sites from being suggested, since the people
> who suggest sites have taken the time to sign-up.
> 2) Secondly, I need to make sure that the same person doesn't vote for
> the same web-site many times in a row (for instance their own web-
> site), an account is the best way to prevent this.
>
> On a positive note, I've just gotten my Blogging engine (from a
> previous years project), up and running, so as a fringe benefit of
> signing up you also now get your own blog, which uses a unique - and I
> think nifty - editing system. I'm going to index these Blogs on a
> regular basis as well, and hopefully they'll constitute a significant
> portion of the search results.

Best of luck with it.

Out of interest, and I'll understand if this is sensitive, but how many hits
do you currently get a day?

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