Hello On a number of sites, I've seen scripts where you can enter a keyword, click search and the website will access the main search engines (eg google, yahoo, msn), find the listings off each site and then display them on their own website. Would anyone know what script I could use to accomplish the same task? Thank you
Well you can use google APIs to make a script like this. And If you want a readymade script then there are 100's of choices. 1st choice is the simple one it queries the google's database with API key. But here you are limited to 1000 queries per day and then your API key is not valid anymore. 2nd choice is a controvertial thing. I had seen some engines directly accessing the google page and then would fetch the page. Now they manipulate the tags and put their own tags with PHP codes and display the results. Here no API's are needed. But I don't think this is legal. 3rd is to make a script and take in the feeds provided by other search engines. 4rd choice is to buy an advanced engine script which takes in feeds from other SE's. Example: Curryguide.com 5th is to host your own search engine on a dedicated server and define the parameters to the robot how much to crawl and how many links it should follow. Ex: you crawl a site and want to just follow till second level links then it will not go deeper then that. 6th you can pm me if still you didn't understood the things. I have experience in making SE's from feeds, API's, and integrating PPC features in it.
Not sure if this is what you want, but it's free and awesome. I was most pleased when I found a link to sphider on DP. I have added it to 2 sites so far and think it is great. Just do a google seach for sphider, click the 1st link. OR you may just be looking for this: http://www.google.com/searchcode.html
I will check those in the morning. I looked at datapark quickly and it looks pretty good. Have you used sphider? Any thoughts on one better than another?
sphider? It is in PHP and I can see red light on server when we use PHP to crawl pages around the internet. Datapark is in C++ and runs in background as an infinite process. It also eats CPU but less compared to the sphider or phpDig. aspseek is a medium one. Can be ran on a shared server. I have seen some of the examples running it on GoDaddy's $6 per month server. (But here also If the total number of pages to be crawled gets more then 10,000 per day then your host will automatically kick you out )
I definately can't program one and would prefer to use/purchase a premade script rather then have a custom script designed. Would you know of any premade scripts that search google,yahoo,msn and mix the results together to create an output based on the surfers keyword?
Search Google or Ask.com for the search term "all in one search engine script" or you can make your own using phpDig.
Well I have been making a search engine site. The preview can be seen here: http://www.juhy.com Note: the above preview is not working fully. As I haven;t launched the site yet. But If you are seriously interested in buying it then I can setup a demo for you. Till then you can see some of the screenshots here: http://www.juhy.com/preview.zip One more thing. This script is not for sale but if the price is right I may sell one or two copies of it. Looking for Mid to High $xxx prices on it. Thanks.
I have a script for sale that gets its results from Google: http://www.pangea-enterprises.net/Search Plus an ASP Search Engine that is standalone http://www.pangea-enterprises.net/ASPSearch Paul