> This worked for me to scrape Google, before we hit the capatcha.

If Google wanted to give back something to the community, it would offer cheap automated searches (current prices are absurd). Another thing - more depth after the first 1000 results. Sometimes you want to know the next result. We shouldn't need to do all these stupid things to batch query a search engine, it should be open. That makes it all the more important to invent an open-source, federated search engine, so we can query to our heart's content (and have privacy).