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We need a search engine that allows for deep search. It should be an open and cooperative project, and users could possibly run an instance of the spider/indexer as payment for executing searches, so it could be like a cross between bittorrent and Tor. A free search engine would enable API calls and also boost privacy and freedom from the likes of Google. We have built a lot of experience about search engines since 2…
Since I can't post both a title and text: What's interesting about this is that the API has been officially deprecated since 2010 (and "offline" since September 2014), but today is the first day that it's actually become unavailable. Edit: Additionally, there are probably going to be big repercussions to the web/average person's browsing experience as a result of this. A massive number of sites (and programs, bots, e…
http://googlesystem.blogspot.ca/2008/04/google-search-rest-a...
You could actually go cool things with the original API. I used it to power a predecessor to https://friskr.com, but we had to switch web search engines after that change.
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the first thing that came to mind was DuckDuckGo :) https://duckduckgo.com/api
Its not a web index. They are unable to offer that as a lot of their results come from external services such as Yandex and Bing. The results are their zeroclick info snippets and it is very useful for pulling an answer from wikipedia since they have already parsed it.
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Google Custom Search is one option, but it has a limit of 10,000 queries per day and is very expensive compared to Bing ($5 per 1,000 queries). I've migrated to Bing, myself -- no volume limits, generous free tier, and much cheaper than Google.
Can you use Google Custom Search for a full index web search?Last I looked, I thought you could only use it configured with a certain list of domains to include in the search. Bing has a decent search api? Interesting, somehow I missed that. Want to provide a URL to a page for the service you're talking about? MS is really bad at documenting their services and prices. I eventually found this page, at this ridiculous…
You can get key right from there and an API console.
Since I can't post both a title and text: What's interesting about this is that the API has been officially deprecated since 2010 (and "offline" since September 2014), but today is the first day that it's actually become unavailable. Edit: Additionally, there are probably going to be big repercussions to the web/average person's browsing experience as a result of this. A massive number of sites (and programs, bots, e…
This is actually the second time they have reduced their Web API for search results. Google used to offer a very full featured REST API, but then took it offline and replaced it with a weak AJAX one: http://googlesystem.blogspot.ca/2008/04/google-search-rest-a... You could actually go cool things with the original API. I used it to power a predecessor to https://friskr.com , but we had to switch web search engines af…
We need a search engine that allows for deep search. It should be an open and cooperative project, and users could possibly run an instance of the spider/indexer as payment for executing searches, so it could be like a cross between bittorrent and Tor. A free search engine would enable API calls and also boost privacy and freedom from the likes of Google. We have built a lot of experience about search engines since 2…
I hope "OpenSearch" becomes a thing, like OpenAI.
Does anyone know of an API that returns pages related to any given URL? I'm looking for an alternative to Google's "related:..." search, which was only reliably accessible through Google Web Search (Google Custom Search is very expensive and has a limit of 10K queries per day). For example: https://www.google.com/#q=related:http:%2F%2Fagiliq.com%2Fbl... It returns pages related to any given page, and works at the spe…
While you're looking for this feature in the meantime, ping the Bing team and ask for it as an added function of their API. Microsoft is a lot more open to feedback these days.
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While you're looking for this feature in the meantime, ping the Bing team and ask for it as an added function of their API. Microsoft is a lot more open to feedback these days.
Any idea on how best to get in touch with them?
For feature requests, it would be awesome if you posted them to: https://cognitive.uservoice.com/ (I'm also forwarding your post to Bing).
If you want to get in touch with the team directly about a question/issue, the "Contact Us" widget at the bottom of the Cognitive Services page is the way to go: https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services
http://www.bing.com/partners list all the services/APIs/partnership opportunities Bing offers.
We need a search engine that allows for deep search. It should be an open and cooperative project, and users could possibly run an instance of the spider/indexer as payment for executing searches, so it could be like a cross between bittorrent and Tor. A free search engine would enable API calls and also boost privacy and freedom from the likes of Google. We have built a lot of experience about search engines since 2…
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Can you use Google Custom Search for a full index web search?Last I looked, I thought you could only use it configured with a certain list of domains to include in the search. Bing has a decent search api? Interesting, somehow I missed that. Want to provide a URL to a page for the service you're talking about? MS is really bad at documenting their services and prices. I eventually found this page, at this ridiculous…
You can check out the new home of Bing Search API here: https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services/en-us/bing-web-... You can get key right from there and an API console.
Should I chalk up to conspiracy that this page is nearly impossible to find on, um, Google, searching terms that you would reasonably use to find it?
But if you have an in with MS, it would probably help an awful lot if they removed the old pages with broken links, unhelpful content, and possibly out of date inaccurate content too.
The page you link to has "coming soon" for pricing for Search (which was kind of confusing to find) -- does that mean that the pricing info on the page I found is not accurate, or soon won't be, with no indication on the page I found that that will be the case?
MS is really really bad at documenting this service. Only because it's MS am I willing to entertain that the quality of docs may not reflect the quality of service, generally I'd give up on something that markets and explains itself so poorly and figure that if they can't get that right, they probably didn't get the service right either.