Re:No, but Google won't stop you (Score 1)

They care, they just havn't acted yet (After all, It's still beta, lets see what people can come up with so we know what we'll need to block when it goes live).

Dude, it's been "beta" for literally years, and it's more stable than a lot of "production" software. It's "beta" in the exact same way that the Debian "testing" branch is unstable software.

If you think google doesnt care about hacks on its service, Why is www.google.com/xml IP restricted?
Why does any request to /search from a useragent with "LWP"(default for a perl script using LibWWW Perl, though configurable) in it get 403?

Well, even though I know I'm feeding the trolls:

A) Probably because they are developing something at http://www.google.com/xml and they don't want to release it to the world until it's ready.

B) Because they don't want to be flooded by bots. If you want to have your bot use Google, they give out free SDKs that let you search from a bot as long as you have a key. The search keys are free for up to 1,000 searchs a day; behind that, they ask you to pay a small fee. They aren't doing this to make your life hard, they're doing it to make sure every spammer and script kiddie in existence doesn't flood their service.