[Foundation-l] The WikiNews fork - for lack of a copyvio detection bot half a project was lost

[Kim Bruning]

On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 10:49:06AM -0500, Aaron Adrignola wrote:
> CorenSearchBot has not been operational for several months since Yahoo
> stopped allowing automated queries.  Bing's terms of use don't permit
> this either and apparently the same is true for Google.

It might be useful to have a community operated spider, then? In that way, we could also optimize
our database for the kinds of queries we need.

sincerely,
	Kim Bruning