Final Thoughts
Now that you know how to write a webbot that determines search rankings and how to perform an insertion parse, here are a few other things to think about.
Be Kind to Your Sources
Remember that search engines do not make money by displaying search results. The search-ranking webbot is a concept study and not a suggestion for a product that you should develop and place in a production environment, where the public uses it. Also—and this is important—you should not violate any search website’s Terms of Service agreement when deploying a webbot like this one.
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