SEO Tip #25: Will Google provide a rank-checking service?
Matt Cutts: Well I wouldn’t call it going to war with these other programs. Our guidelines have said the same thing for years, which is essentially please don’t hit us with automated queries.
The reason that we’ve said that is that because people do hit us with automated queries and that takes up some server capacity. So when someone is scraping Google, if we know that person, we might write to
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