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

[Jason McCabe Calacanis]

We don't have google on every page, we default to them when we *don't* have a hand crafted page.

When wikia search gets better results than google we'll switch to that. I'm thinking wikia will take another 90 days to beat google... So soon. :)

Best J

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-----Original Message-----
From: Peter <vptes11 at gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:14:49 
To:"Search Wikia Mailing List" <search-l at wikia.com>
Subject: [Search-l] Getting Search Results from Existing Search Engines


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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