Here's what's wrong with /bin/sh:
(Taken from Google's Terms of Service)
No Automated Querying
You may not send automated queries of any sort to Google's system without express permission in advance from Google. Note that "sending automated queries" includes, among other things:
* using any software which sends queries to Google to determine how a website or webpage "ranks" on Google for various queries;
* "meta-searching" Google; and
* performing "offline" searches on Google.
I believe that little shell script qualifies as an "Automated Query". Power to the people with SOAP. Besides, screen scraping totally sucks ass and it's a waste of bandwidth.
1:22:53 PM
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