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

[Jason McCabe Calacanis]

Yes, there are a bunch of ways to syndicate google/ask/yahoo/etc. Sorry, overlooked that.

From what I've read they are flexible about results up until the point you edit them or do metasearch (two big issues for them from what I've heard).  So, the idea of voting up and down google, or things like aftervote will get shut down if they get any traction (which they don't due to the fact that they not noticeably different than google/yahoo).

Best J

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-----Original Message-----
From: Bani <borboleta at gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 23:56:09 
To:search-l at wikia.com
Subject: Re: [Search-l] Getting Search Results from Existing Search Engines


> 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
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