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<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Parse Google</title>
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-2.1.4.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<ul id="links"></ul>
</body>
<!-- We can't access google.com directly due to the same-origin policy. To get around this we can use this helper script
which (I think) makes the request through a proxy. The script gives us an object that returns some useful properties -->
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.ajax-cross-domain.com/cgi-bin/ACD/ACD.js?uri=(http://www.google.com)"></script>
<script>
// One of the properties we get is responseText which is the HTML string from google
var google = ACD.responseText;
// We can use jQuery to turn the string into an object and at the same time find all <a> tags
var links = $(google).find('a');
// We loop through all the <a> tags and for each one we append it to the #links ul above
$.each(links, function(index, link) {
$('#links').append('<li><a href=' + link + '>' + link + '</a></li>');
});
</script>
</html>
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