You read every ToS for every service/product you use?
Community and social standards often trump legalese. For instance, most absurd restrictions in apartment rental agreements are not enforceable.
In this case, linking to another site, no matter how "deep" the link is, is common practice.
If WA really doesn't like it, they can prevent it by checking the referrer, or going even further by adding a pseudorandom token to their query page, switched every 5 minutes and valid for an hour or a day, and redirecting deep links which don't have a valid token.
Of course, doing that would probably kill some traffic they like, so they have a silly, selectively-enforced and probably unenforceable ToS clause instead.
I don't see any reason why such provisions need to be enforced legally, since they can be enforced technologically in most cases. Expanding the law because of laziness is a horrible precedent.
Community and social standards often trump legalese. For instance, most absurd restrictions in apartment rental agreements are not enforceable.
In this case, linking to another site, no matter how "deep" the link is, is common practice.
If WA really doesn't like it, they can prevent it by checking the referrer, or going even further by adding a pseudorandom token to their query page, switched every 5 minutes and valid for an hour or a day, and redirecting deep links which don't have a valid token.
Of course, doing that would probably kill some traffic they like, so they have a silly, selectively-enforced and probably unenforceable ToS clause instead.
I don't see any reason why such provisions need to be enforced legally, since they can be enforced technologically in most cases. Expanding the law because of laziness is a horrible precedent.