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List of search engine URL syntaxes

If anyone knows of a list of search engine URL syntaxes, please tell me. It'll save me a lot of time, rather than having to go to every search engine, put in a query myself, and decipher what's in it. I want to do this both for my script that lists my referrers, and for a version of something similar to Google Hilite that will work with search engines in addition to Google.

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Pepino (http://www.pepilog.de/) wrote:

Do you think of something like GoogleStats?: http://www.googlestats.com/

∴ Pepino | 28-Apr-2003 6:33pm est | http://www.pepilog.de/ | #1926

Pepino (http://www.pepilog.de/) wrote:

Sorry, i wrote my answer before i looked at GoogleHilite.

∴ Pepino | 28-Apr-2003 6:41pm est | http://www.pepilog.de/ | #1927

Keith (http://www.keithdevens.com/) wrote:

Wow, that's pretty cool, though I wasn't thinking of creating something like that. I just wanted to make searched-for words highlighted on a page like how the Google cache does it.

I also want to give myself a nicer view of my referrers. Right now in my referrer listing script it turns referrers from Google into things that look like:

www.google.com
Search: "rube goldberg" honda - 2

but for other search engines I still get stuff like:

search.netscape.com
/nscp_results.adp?start=41&first=40&nav=next
&query=devens prison&source=NSCPNextPrev - 1

I wrapped that intentionally so it doesn't stretch out my layout Smiley but it's all one line on my referrer page.

I downloaded the source, and maybe I can take a look at how it munges URLs from all the search engines it understands.

Keith | 28-Apr-2003 6:43pm est | http://www.keithdevens.com/ | #1928

Pepino (http://www.pepilog.de/) wrote:

I think i found what you're looking for: http://www.scriptygoddess.com/archives/003274.php

∴ Pepino | 28-Apr-2003 7:58pm est | http://www.pepilog.de/ | #1929

James (http://www.ordinary-life.net) wrote:

How about MT-refsearch as a starting point. Sounds like it's the perl/mt equivalent.

http://eliot.landrum.cx/archives/2002/12/12/07_the_wonderwhammy_release.php

∴ James | 28-Apr-2003 8:53pm est | http://www.ordinary-life.net | #1930

Keith (http://www.keithdevens.com/) wrote:

Pepino, that's a pretty intense function, and it's just about exactly what I was looking for. Thanks a lot.

James, that's basically what Pepino linked to, but thank you too Smiley

Keith | 28-Apr-2003 9:03pm est | http://www.keithdevens.com/ | #1931

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