> The front end will be Cold Fusion but the backend needs to be something more robust. I need a server based engine to process and juggle multiple search engine searches; catalog their result sets; save them to a database; and eliminate duplicates.
You should investigate Googles SOAP interface. Sounds like exactly what you need. Don't know about the rest (hehe rest, no pun intended) of the search engines though. > This backend work is not appropriate for Cold Fusion. Can Visual Basic spawn multiple COM objects like this? > What are your suggestions for the engine software? Just about anything that supports COM can instantiate multiple objects, the question is, does the COM object support it? From what it sounds like, all you need to have is a program that does an http get for your search, and returns the xml or html results set for possible parsing, and insert the results into a database. Pretty basic stuff in just about any language including VB. Why is the backend work not appropriate for CF? Performance reasons? More details please. jon ______________________________________________________________________ Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
