s.r.o.o.g.l.e, the privacy-friendly Google scraper, has been crippled by changes to one of the dominant search engine's interface pages.

The unheralded alterations to google.com/ie yesterday could mean #*$! has to be "permanently retired", its operator Daniel Brandt wrote.

"Over the next few days we will attempt to contact Google and determine whether the old interface is gone as a matter of policy at Google, or if they simply have it hidden somewhere and will tell us where it is so that we can continue to use it," he added.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/11/sroogle_google/

NOTE: Webmasterworld's word filters see the google search known as s.r.o.o.g.l.e as a verbotten word, hence the insert as "code" for the link.