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Originally Posted by KrisP

Response from Google .....

Hi Kris,

Great job! Glad to see you back up again soon.

Google is fair.

OBTW, a long time ago (well, around 5 months ago), there was a member of these forums called T2x. He was the first person to insist that people need to add the referral header code and to use the Google API key. He also was the first person to crack the code on rewriting the URLs to get rid of the question mark in the query.

At the time, the guy who paid for the code for the first translation mod (whom NLP-er worked with to make the code actually and the database work properly) really ridiculed T2x for warning people to add the referral header to Google and to add the optional AJAX search API.

It turns out that T2x is the hero for all of us. He was the first to work out these issues. We have been running T2x's code for months and never had any problems because we have always had the referral headers, etc. We followed T2x completely because what he said corresponded directly with the Google TOS.

My public praise for T2x takes nothing away from NLP-er who has done a great job too, without a doubt.

However, I think it is important to remind everyone that it was fellow forum team member T2x that was the first person to work out all the Google TOS issues and provide the original code fixes.

Everyone here owes T2x and word of thanks, including me.

Thank you T2x!

You are 'da man! :up: :up: :up: