I've been using usenet searches since about 1995 to get programming information, mostly for microsoft APIs. First searching via dejanews, and now google "groups" which bought out dejanews. Over the last few years I've noticed a steady decline in the quantity of search results for usenet from google, and today I find I'm completely unable to get a working usenet search on their advanced group search page. I'm used to searching on "microsoft.*" sometimes suplemented with "microsoft" or "microsoft*". Just try to find a post from 1996-1998 time period on "database" in either the comp.* or microsoft.* hierarchies, and if you can do it, please show your search expression. There should be thousands of results.
http://groups.google.com/groups/search?safe=off&q=database+group%3Amicrosoft*&btnG=Rechercher&as_mind=1&as_minm=1&as_miny=1996&as_maxd=1&as_maxm=1&as_maxy=1999&as_drrb=b&sitesearch=
seems to work nicely... 994 results (no thousands but still...)
It appears to be problem with the advanced search form. I can't get the one at
http://groups.google.fr/advanced_search?hl=fr&q=&hl=fr&
to work either. But I can use the basic form with "database group:microsoft*" and I get many results as expected.
http://www.google.ca/groups/search?safe=off&q=database+group%3Acomp.*&btnG=Search&sitesearch=
returns 3,000 results
The advanced search isn't working for me either:
Broken advanced search results URL
However, removing lr=selected from the query string in that URL makes it work, for some reason:
Working advanced search results URL
In fact, hitting the search button again on the broken advanced search results page will return those results as well for me.
Or actually, it's only partly working, since entering multiple comma-separated groups in the advanced search form (or using the group: search operator) doesn't quite work as expected and ends up adding all the words in the additional group names as search keywords too.
You could try learning Julian dates and use the daterange search operator:
Search results using daterange:
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I'm trying to use youtube data search and video API in my web application to display top view-counted videos related with several keywords. I'm planing to use totally two calls: the first call get id list with search API, and the second call get details for the ids hit on the first call, with video API.
My question is with regard to search API. Based on my trial and error, If I input multiple keyword with space separation in the parameter q for search API, it's looks behaves as AND condition it's not same as common behavior such as google. To search with multiple keywords with OR condition, As far as I tried, it's looks working if I Include the OR between keywords, but I would like to confirm my assumption correct, officially if possible.
I should be able to find this kind of specification in the official documentation, but finally I have no luck. It's very helpful if you could share these links if exists or give me the official answer.
By the way, it is my first post to stackoverflow. If there is missing point of my question, please kindly advice.
I'm facing a weird problem with Google search , when I search for my website using these keywords "dardasha newspaper" ... I got the expected correct result. my site comes first with site-links included.
https://www.google.com/search?q=dardasha+newspaper&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
But when I search for my website using these keywords "جريدة دردشة", I got the correct result but with no site-links
https://www.google.com/search?q=dardasha+newspaper&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8#q=%D8%AC%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%A9+%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%AF%D8%B4%D8%A9
Even my website's language is "Arabic" - the second one used for the search. ... Why are the search results different based on used keywords?
The results are expanded to site-links in Google results when you search by website domain or very close.
Your website is www.dardashanewspaper.com and you searched by dardasha newspaper which is the domain name.
Another problem is that Google thinks that dardasha in Arabic is : درداشا not دردشة.
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'm in need to have more than 1 synonym for a search term in magento (version 1.4.2.0 - can't upgrade it for now), but all my attempts to add multiple synonyms have failed.
I've been looking around without any solution, any of you had a similar need and managed to find a solution?
Thanks for any help,
Mat.
So you have people look for 'doodad' or 'dodad' and you want to show people the 'macguffin' instead.
So far you have tried to add these search terms in on the back-end but it has not worked.
The fix-workaround is surprisingly simple.
Type in 'dodad' in the frontend - no result given.
Now type 'doodad' in the frontend - again no results.
Now go into the backend and go to the last page of the search terms.
The entries for 'dodad' and 'doodad' will be in there. You can now put 'macguffin' in the synonym box.
Now go to the front and type in 'dodad' or 'doodad' into the search box and it will take you straight to the 'macguffin' item.
I'm curious what the programming terms or methodology is used when Google shows you the "did you mean" link for a word that is made up of multiple words?
For example if I type in "redflower.jpg" It knows to break that up into Red Flower
Is there a common paradigm for doing that sort of operation? Would a Lucene search give you that?
thanks!
If google does not see a lot of matching results for reflowers.jpg, it might then try to cut the words in multiple words until it finds a lot of matching results.
It might also recognize the extension (.jpg), recognize the image extension and then try to find images with the similar name.
If I would have to make an algorithm like this, I would use an huge EXISTING database (either a dictionary or a search engine) and then try what I said in the beginning of my post.
Perhaps they could to look at what other people do when they have searched for redflowers.jpg? Maybe a number of people searched for "redflowers.jpg", didn't click on any links, and then searched for "Red Flower" and found some results worth clicking on.
Of course they would have to take into account that the queries are similar (contain matching strings), otherwise some strange results might appear.