[PLUG-TALK] Google Search Grumbles

[Dwight Hubbard]

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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