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C#: I want to write an application that will parse google for my website's ranking, where do I start?

C#: I want to write an application that will parse google for my website's ranking(position in the google search engine and NOT PageRank), where do I start? Does anyone know any examples doing so written in c#? What is the general direction you would start with? How should I parse google' web pages? Although I've searched for it, it's ...

Recurrence rule definition (RFC2445) question

Hi, I'm using Google's RFC2445 implementation (http://code.google.com/p/google-rfc-2445/) for recurrence rules. If I define a MONTHLY recurrence starting on the 30th of January, months with less than 30 days (i.e., February) will be totally skipped. So the Google API would return 30th Jan, 30th March, 30th April, etc. Not good. I would ...

Free open source alternative to Google?

Given the recent 55 minute Google service interruption, it seems obvious to me that internet search is too important to leave in the hands of one company (no matter how hard they try not to be evil). So are there some (possibly p2p) free open source alternative internet search/information storage and retrieval systems that might work or...

Violation of Google Search's terms of service?

I am planning to write a short Perl script on my blog to automatically retrieve the ranking of a given URL for a specific keyword (see http://damienlearnsperl.blogspot.com/search/label/RankSearch?max-results=100). I am afraid that I do not have the right to do that with regards to Google's terms of service. I have asked my question on Go...

undocumented fp query param in Google search URL

The Search Protocol Reference at http://code.google.com/apis/searchappliance/documentation/52/xml_reference.html doesn't mention anything about fp param. Yet, it seems to show up sometimes. Does anyone know what it does? ...

How to distribute script using gdata-python-client?

I've written several scripts that make use of the gdata API, and they all (obviously) have my API key and client ID in plain-text. How am I supposed to distribute these? ...

Does google index pages with hidden divs?

I am starting to redesign and develop a site that contains a lot of text and I am thinking of ways to organize the information on the site so that it looks cleaner. On some parts of the site I would like to implement a jquery toggle effect where some content is placed in a hidden div and that content will show or hide depending on a use...

Is it possible to google search with the gdata API?

I might be just thick (nothing new), but I can't seem to find anything related to an old-fashioned, vanilla google search in the gdata API docs. Anyone know if it's possible? (I know it probably is with a little tinkering, but I already have a Python web-scraping class created that does it for me, but I was wondering if using gdata would...

what server side language is gmail written in?

what server side language is gmail written in? ...

How to search for language syntax in Google?

My current question is what does the << operator do in Ruby? But my real question is how would I search Google to find the answer? ...

Google Financial Api how get stock quotes

Hi, Im searching for access to finantial data from Google services. I found this url that gets the stock data from Microsoft company: http://finance.google.com/finance/info?client=ig&amp;q=NASDAQ:MSFT I would like to know what are all the possible parameters that google allows for this kind of http request, to see all the different ...

Google Mini: Accessing cached crawled file contents?

Right now I've got a Google Mini crawling a directory containing a bunch of documents in various formats. Is there a way to access the cached contents of a specific document in this directory (if it has been crawled/cached)? I'm looking for the plain text of the file, not the crawled file itself. ...

How relevant are url names in non english speaking countries?

If I have a commercial site belonging to a Japanese company which will use Katakana or Kanji (non ASCII characters) for the keyword they wish to obtain good search results in google, does it still matter to put the closest english word on the site DNS Name? like: if the search word is "homepage" in Katakana: ホームページ Will the the DNS n...

How do I search for multiple file types on Google Search Appliance

I want to search for multiple file types at once. For example, when I want to search for ".htm" files, I add "filetype:htm" to the query and that works fine. Similarly, "filetype:html" also works. However, how can I specify a query parameter that returns all htm AND html files? ...

Google Search of PDF Documents

We are having troubles getting Google to index the PDF files in our site. There are about 50 PDF and range in size for 20 KB to a little under two megs. They are not protected, can be read annonymously, and inside of PDF Reader, you can search the document. They are listed in the SiteMap.xml. I can even look at the IIS logs and see ...

How do you notify Google through code that there is a updated sitemap?

On this page of Google help: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/docs/en/sitemap-generator.html#submitting Google mentions that there is a way to notify them of an updated sitemap using an HTTP request. When you click the link, it takes you to this page: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=34592&amp;topi...

Google Bookmark Export date format?

I been working on parsing out bookmarks from an export file generated by google bookmarks. This file contains the following date attributes: ADD_DATE="1231721701079000" ADD_DATE="1227217588219000" These are not standard unix style timestamps. Can someone point me in the right direction here? I'll be parsing them using c# if you are fe...

Where do you include the jQuery library from? Google JSAPI? CDN?

There are a few ways to include jQuery and jQuery UI and I'm wondering what people are using? Google JSAPI jQuery's site your on site/server another CDN I have recently been using Google JSAPI, but have found that it takes along time to setup an SSL connection or just to resolve google.com. I have been using the following for Google:...

Google translate breaks button that makes javascript function call

Hello all, I have site that works fine but when i put it through Google translate my button that initiates a javascript function doesn't work. However, some other Javascript calls via links work. Whats wrong? Example translation Thank you for any help. Update The sister site is even worse, the whole left side goes white?? Wait for ...

Any suggestions for making Silverlight content available to search engines?

Assuming the following: You have some content currently being displayed in an ASP.NET HTML table. You want to use Silverlight for a better user experience. It is important that the information be indexed in Google, et al. What do you do? I know that XAP (Silverlight executables) contain XAML which could theoretically be indexed. But ...