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One thing I must add. You're looking at this issue from the wrong perspective, IMHO. I'm not referring specifically to the problems you are having with the search due to various service abuses, but to the overall mentality I'm sensing here.
GFY has become a major resource in this industry, and while it attracts many users on a daily (read: hourly) basis, it's also an opportunity for others with some entrepreneurial spirit to further enhance the board for the benefit of everyone else.
Those who seek to do so for legitimate purposes do not try to steal your traffic or content. It is simply an opportunity to make a buck while introducing useful utilities that are not currently available directly from GFY. STBoards with their tracking capabilities and the GFYStats project BlueWire is working on are only two examples.
Do you think eBay was crying when people developed various APIs and stand-alone services to remotely search items, image uploads/storage, or more advanced auction monitoring features? Nope. Because they were looking at the big picture. The same goes for Amazon. That's why those companies are still here.
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