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Relevant internet search results on my own site

         

wyvern

1:19 am on Nov 21, 2005 (gmt 0)

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This is my first message on Webmaster World, so I would like to say hello to everybody!

I would like to create my own search engine, with potentially high volume of visitors, and provide accurate and convenient search results of it's users.
I wonder whether any of the big search engines (Google, Yahoo/Overture, Ask, etc.) provide a feed with search results which I would be able to integrate into my site and display to my users as if they were my results? Something like the XML feed, which is provided by most PPC search engines, except that I need non-commercial and really relevant results, and I understand that I'd probably have to pay to receive the kind of search results that I need. Sadly, I couldn't find any info of a service like this on Google's nor Yahoo's list of products and services, so I'm asking whether someone here have heard of such.

Anyango

5:14 am on Nov 21, 2005 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



Hi wyvern!

Welcome to Webmasterworld!


I need non-commercial and really relevant results

Google and Yahoo both provide their free search API which you can use in your website for non-commercial purpose. both APIs are kinda very nice and powerfull, you can easily format the output as you want and number of results as you want, and there is i think limit of 1000 queries per day but that you can check on their sites.

Try searching for Yahoo Web API and Google Web API and you ll enter a whole new world ;)

They have interface coded in almost every web programming language (that helps alot)

Regards

wyvern

6:12 am on Nov 21, 2005 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Anyango,
Thanks a lot for pointing out to me the correct search strings for my quest :-) They helped indeed.
Unfortunately I do plan to use this service for a commercial purpose (I want the noncommercial results in terms that the results won't be just a list of ads, like the search results of PPC search engines are) and hopefully will generate more than 1k queries per day.
While Google says that they only have a free API, Yahoo leaves a possibility for a commercial use of their API after contacting them. I will try to contact them both about a commercial use though.
I wonder if there are any other companies which can provide comprehensive web search results...