[PLUG-TALK] Google Search Grumbles
Dwight Hubbard
dwight at dwightandamy.com
Mon Jan 30 18:48:41 UTC 2012
Have you looked at yql (http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/) ?? It creates
a sql like interface for web scraping.
So a you can do a yql query like:
select * from search.web where query="linux cifs setup"
And the result is a parsable xml document.
This site has a good quick and dirty quick start
(http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/other/how-to-create-a-web-service-in-a-matter-of-minutes/)
(Note I work for Yahoo so I may be a bit biased but I still think YQL is
cool :-) )
On 01/28/2012 12:18 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> Others have vented here about the poor quality of search results using
> Google. My frustration with it is requesting linux-specific results and
> having most hits for Windows, even when I specify '- Windows' in the search
> term.
>
> I'm trying now to find a tool that will export .dbf table data in ASCII
> format so I can modify the data prior to import into postgees and R. Even
> some bold-text headlines that say 'linux' have only Windows content on the
> referenced page.
>
> Off to find another search engine.
>
> Rich
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