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Client side search engine?

whats newxt · 2015-09-20 14:38:04

Was messing around with phantomjs and the idea hit me why not build a client side search engine, well when i say search engine i mean ripping off google yahoo bing and other small search engines, what do you think? is it worth pursuing?

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20-09-2015 3:38pm

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Was messing around with phantomjs and the idea hit me why not build a client side search engine, well when i say search engine i mean ripping off google yahoo bing and other small search engines, what do you think? is it worth pursuing?

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#2 20-09-2015 4:09pm
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Sorry, im not very articulate, what i'm basically trying to do is scrape google, yahoo, and bing and aggregate the best results on page to achieve this i was considering on using casperjs and phantomjs. Similar to price comparison sites only this is search results.

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#3 20-09-2015 4:16pm
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You mean a metasearch engine?

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#4 20-09-2015 4:19pm
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28064212 wrote: »

You mean a metasearch engine?

Yes thats exactly what i'm trying to achieve (never head that term before).

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#5 22-09-2015 12:08am
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whats newxt wrote: »

Yes thats exactly what i'm trying to achieve (never head that term before).

You use their search APIs and aggregate the results as you please.

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