Try https://api.duckduckgo.com/api ?
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 1:09 PM, Kalpa Gunaratna <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you. I had a look but it seems like it is an api to use when you build > a search engine yourself and not to retrieve search results from an existing > index. Correct me if I am wrong here. Thank you again. > > > On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 2:38 AM, Sergio Fernández > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> take a look to OpenSearch, a XML-based format: http://www.opensearch.org >> >> >> On 29/04/14 07:19, Kalpa Gunaratna wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> I am in need of a web search api that can get me number of hits. I >>> want >>> this to evaluate a research prototype published sometime ago. The system >>> is >>> not developed by me and at that time Google had a free web search api. I >>> cannot find a free web search api to get this thing done as Google, Bing, >>> and Yahoo are charging for web search apis now. The system needs to query >>> around 50k - 100k queries. Please let me know if you are aware of >>> something >>> useful here. Thank you. >>> >> >> -- >> Sergio Fernández >> Senior Researcher >> Knowledge and Media Technologies >> Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft mbH >> Jakob-Haringer-Straße 5/3 | 5020 Salzburg, Austria >> T: +43 662 2288 318 | M: +43 660 2747 925 >> [email protected] >> http://www.salzburgresearch.at > > > > > -- > Regards > Kalpa Gunaratna > Home Page LinkedIn Blog > @Kno.e.sis - Ohio Center of Excellence in Knowledge-enabled Computing
