Based on Bing News API v7 documentation they support advanced operators.
For example searching for:
"Dan Bilzerian" AND (women OR money OR "something wrong")
returns lots of results in Google News but nothing in Bing News.
Whereas
"Dan Bilzerian" AND (women OR money)
return results in both where it is just the same thing for Google News.
Could you suggest?
Results are returned based on relevance.
Your use of OR makes it that "Dan Bilzerian" AND "something wrong" is likely the least relevant source of results.
So dropping that condition results in the same as using just the first 2 OR conditions.
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I just wanted to know if anything changed on geocode API from 21 st February because before 21st it was validating zip code 9 digits but from yesterday it is giving an error on 9 digits zip code and now it only validating 5 digits zip code.
More information in your question would be helpful.
I haven't noticed any change, but I thought I'd take a look at the GeoCoder Documentation FAQ for you.
Yes, based on that date, I'd say something changed recently.
Perhaps this is what you're referring to, but that's only a speculation since you didn't provide any detail or examples.
Troubleshooting
I’m getting more queries that return ZERO_RESULTS with the new geocoder. What’s going on?
In the new geocoder, ambiguous, incomplete and badly formatted queries, such as misspelled or nonexistent addresses, are prone to produce ZERO_RESULTS. These queries would typically produce incorrect results in the old geocoder, such as returning the suburb if the address could not be found. We believe that returning ZERO_RESULTS is actually a more correct response in such situations.
If your application deals with user input of addresses, the Place Autocomplete feature in the Places API may produce better quality results. Place Autocomplete allows users to select from a set of results based on what they’ve typed, which allows users to choose between similarly named results, and to adjust their query if they misspell an address.
If you have an application dealing with ambiguous or incomplete queries or queries that may contain errors, we recommend you use the Place Autocomplete feature in the Places API rather than the forward geocoder available in the Geocoding API. For more details, see Best Practices When Geocoding Addresses and the Address Geocoding in the Google Maps APIs blog post.
More Information:
Documentation FAQ
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I might be missing something obvious, but is there any way to get an insight into why the GSA results for a query are what they are? E.g. Lucene searchers have explain method. Is there anything similar in GSA?
This would be extremely useful when you don't quite understand why you are getting results that you are getting and why the order is what it is.
No. According to all expert reports in enterprise search domain (i.e. Gartner, but not only), Google never explained how it ranks search results in GSA.
I'm curious to know how Market Samurai, Long Tail Pro and other software handle retrieving the top 10 Google search results and not running into limits. It appears that these software packages use the users own Google account. Google Custom Search limits users to 100 queries per day (the free limit) but people tend to do keyword research on hundreds or even thousands of keywords per day and don't pay any additional amounts to Google.
Are they paying extra for this service, are they using a different API (perhaps the Adwords API?) or are they scraping the Google search results page (violation of TOS)? Really would like to know! Thanks.
i have done this in one of my project (in java).
this is very simple, in java there is one library call JSoup by using this library you can send get request to google, for example:
https://www.google.co.in/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=<your url encoded search term>
this will return you an HTML code of google search result with your own term.
using Jsoup u can find specific HTML tag with specific class or id. this concept helps you to extract url link, title and description from google search result.
for working example check here, in that example you can extract google serach result links with custom search term.
i hope this will help you.
I would like to use the Google custom search API for searching only in discussions like using the query string &tbm=dsc.
Unfortunately there is no tbm parameter given in the API documentation.
Is it not possible to limit the search results to discussions only?
No, there is currently not a way to do the discussion search with CSE/GSS. The only special search is image which is documented in the API reference. You could use Labels and Refinements to limit your search to specific sites and/or patterns.
Limiting search results for Google Custom Search to only discussion websites is not possible. Just in case, remember that Google Custom Search is for searching over one website or a collection of websites. If your collection is all discussion sites, well, that doesn't seem to be the purpose of Google Custom Search. However, there may be some useful workarounds/solutions.
Workaround 0
Find or generate a collection of discussion sites you're interest in and create a custom search based on that. This would accomplish (almost) the same results you are after.
Workaround 1
You might be able to perform a redirection with refinement labels. This example redirects to a Google Scholar search. You might be able to accomplish the same result using &tbm=dsc.
<CustomSearchEngine>
<Title>Universities</Title>
<Context>
<Facet>
<FacetItem title="Papers">
<Label name="papers" mode="FILTER"/>
<Redirect url="http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=$q"/>
</FacetItem>
</Facet>
</Context>
</CustomSearchEngine>
"Sounds like" based on Soundex or Metaphone is not uncommon option for proprietary full text search in databases ( Oracle, MS SQL Server ) or open source search engines such as Lucene.
I have a difficulty using Google :) to find out whether anything similar does exist for advanced Google search. Regarding wildcard search it seems to be implied only ( by stemming which doesn't always produce everything we want as if it were a wildcard ) , but what about "sounds like". Is anything similar available only at Google App level , but not at Google website itself ?
Google has a spell-checking algorithm, which includes sounds-like, typos, and common misspellings. It usually shows the corrected spelling as the "Did You Mean" link at the top of the results page, and sometimes it automatically shows the search results of the suggested spelling as well, as in: http://www.google.com/search?q=haskel+programing+language.