Re: a web search api

Hi,

On 29/04/14 19:09, Kalpa Gunaratna wrote:
> 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.

It's in fact a generic api that search engines could use. If you want to 
just just a custom service, then this thread is a bit off-topic in this 
mailing list, isn't it?


> 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.
>>>
>>>
>> --
>> Sergio Fernández
>> Senior Researcher
>> Knowledge and Media Technologies
>> Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft mbH
>> Jakob-Haringer-Straße 5/3 | 5020 Salzburg, Austria
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>> http://www.salzburgresearch.at
>>
>
>
>

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Sergio Fernández
Senior Researcher
Knowledge and Media Technologies
Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft mbH
Jakob-Haringer-Straße 5/3 | 5020 Salzburg, Austria
T: +43 662 2288 318 | M: +43 660 2747 925
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Received on Wednesday, 30 April 2014 07:44:57 UTC