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

[Bani]

> 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?

I am not Jason, but since he decided to skip the technical part of the
question here is what I think:
Google provides several APIs to allow people to embed their results
into their sites. Mahalo probably uses  the SOAP* or AJAX* APIs

* http://code.google.com/apis/soapsearch/
* http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/


Now, about Wikia Search using Google results at first, that doesn't
seem to make sense for me considering the direction development seems
to be taking.


Vanessa