[Search-l] Getting Search Results from Existing Search Engines

[Peter]

Hi everyone -
I've been a lurker on this list for quiet a while...just thought I'd
shoot out a couple of questions...

First, for Jason...I've noticed how Mahalo includes Google results on
every results page. How does this work? Did you have to do a private
deal with Google, are you using some API that they've made available
to the public, or are you simply sending queries to their webservers
and scraping the results off their results pages?

Also, do you guys envision using search results generated by existing
search engines, such as Google, in Search Wikia? (or at least in the
very beginning, before the community has a chance to develop the
complex algorithms necessary to generate good search results
in-house).

Thanks!

-Peter
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