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

[Ray Slakinski]

As a side note, on some of our (Mahalo's) pages we use Google News  
RSS feeds. But that is up to the guide to figure out what terms to  
query google with and placement of those RSS items.

Ray

On 18-Oct-07, at 10:14 PM, Peter wrote:

> 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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