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'''Search engine scraping'''
Most commonly larger [[search engine optimization]] (SEO) providers depend on regularly scraping keywords from search engines to monitor the competitive position of their customers' websites for relevant keywords or their [[search engine indexing|indexing]] status.
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Google is by far the largest search engine with most users in numbers as well as most revenue in creative advertisements, which makes Google the most important search engine to scrape for SEO related companies.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://searchengineland.com/google-worlds-most-popular-search-engine-148089|title=Google Still World's Most Popular Search Engine By Far, But Share Of Unique Searchers Dips Slightly|date=11 February 2013|website=searchengineland.com}}</ref>
Although Google does not take legal action against scraping, it uses a range of defensive methods that makes scraping their results a challenging task, even when the scraping tool is realistically [[Spoofing attack|spoofing]] a normal [[web browser]]:
* Google is using a complex system of request rate limitation which can vary for each language, country, User-Agent as well as depending on the keywords or search parameters. The rate limitation can make it unpredictable when accessing a search engine automated, as the behaviour patterns are not known to the outside developer or user.
* Network and [[IP address|IP]] limitations are as well part of the scraping defense systems. Search engines can not easily be tricked by changing to another IP, while using proxies is a very important part in successful scraping. The diversity and abusive history of an IP is important as well.
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