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[VMG]

Does anybody know were I can get my hands and a XML feed of some sort so I can try to create a search engine?

Thanks

[evilgreenmonkey]

Hi VMG,

Can you be more specific please?

Are you looking for a search engine API that uses XML transactions such as SOAP or an XML feed such as RSS to test your spider on?


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Rob

[VMG]

Thanks for getting back. I'm looking for an XML feed that can handle unlimited searches if possible. I'm trying to build this for my college project.

Thanks

[evilgreenmonkey]

Hi VMG,

Thanks for getting back. I'm looking for an XML feed that can handle unlimited searches if possible. I'm trying to build this for my college project.


Unfortunately there isn't "unlimited" anything in this world, especially when it comes to APIs.

Some options:

Google (http://www.google.com/apis/) offer a search API which offers a generous number of free credits.
Yahoo! (http://developer.yahoo.com/search/) offer a similar service.
Amazon (http://tinyurl.com/s4b6o) offer developers the ability to create your own scalable index/database.


HTH,

Rob

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