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#Backend engineer

Dolores Labs is funded, growing, and, frankly, where the action is at in San Francisco. However, we have a bit of a problem: Ruby doesn't scale. We need someone to rewrite our entire application in Java. JUST KIDDING. Seriously though, we need help scaling our application (mostly in Ruby).

##Skills that are a must

Startup: You're able to learn quickly, design creative solutions, and work independently.

People: From time to time you'll need to communicate with clients and co-workers.

Using the scripting language of your choice, write a scraper that will search Google for "milksteak" and output the first 100 results formatted as a CSV file in the following format:
result_num,title,link,description
1,Milk Steak Recipe,http://mixxnews.com/milk-steak-recipe.htm,"Description <i>goes</i> here..."
2,WikiAnswers - What is a milk steak as mentioned on it's always...,http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_a_milk_steak_as_mentioned_on_it's_always_sunny_in_philadelphia,"Description <i>goes</i> here..."
...
You may use any publically-available libraries that you want and refer to any documentation that you need.