Re: a web search api

Thank you. I had a look but it seems like it is an api to use when you
build a search engine yourself and not to retrieve search results from an
existing index. Correct me if I am wrong here. Thank you again.


On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 2:38 AM, Sergio Fernández <
sergio.fernandez@salzburgresearch.at> wrote:

> take a look to OpenSearch, a XML-based format: http://www.opensearch.org
>
>
> On 29/04/14 07:19, Kalpa Gunaratna wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>     I am in need of a web search api that can get me number of hits. I
>> want
>> this to evaluate a research prototype published sometime ago. The system
>> is
>> not developed by me and at that time Google had a free web search api. I
>> cannot find a free web search api to get this thing done as Google, Bing,
>> and Yahoo are charging for web search apis now. The system needs to query
>> around 50k - 100k queries. Please let me know if you are aware of
>> something
>> useful here. Thank you.
>>
>>
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