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chore: remove google_search bot#905

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RoyalOughtness:removegooglebot
Feb 24, 2026
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chore: remove google_search bot#905
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Scraping google search results is no longer possible due to google's anti-scraping measures. Projects that previously depended on scraping google search results have moved away from it. Given that this bot also pulls in a large dep (lxml), It seems preferable to remove it altogether.

Scraping google search results is no longer possible
due to google's anti-scraping measures. Projects that
previously depended on scraping google search results
have [moved away from it](benbusby/whoogle-search#1253).
Given that this bot also pulls in a large dep (lxml),
It seems preferable to remove it altogether.
@timabbott timabbott merged commit 9960360 into zulip:main Feb 24, 2026
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Merged, after some tweaks to the commit message to follow project guidelines. Thanks @RoyalOughtness!

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