[thelist] ATOMZ To End Free Search -- Other Options?
Sam Foster
sam at sam-i-am.com
Mon Oct 4 14:18:02 CDT 2004
I've been looking into the Google API, prompted by the same Atomz
announcement. It's working well so far - I have a perl/cgi that accepts
queries and responds with entirely custom formatted search results. I
needed the results page to validate as strict xhtml - something that was
hard to find elsewhere.
But I'm not comparing apples with apples. One is an API, the other a
hosted search/indexing service. Any searches are against Google's index
and you don't get to reindex at will like you do with Atomz or similar
services.
And you have a maximum of 1000 searches a day.. fine for me, but
probably not for lots of sites out there.
Worth looking into though as you get all of Google's PDF indexing,
cacheing etc. for free. And I really like keeping my template and
results hosted on my server.. I'd run into cross-domain scripting issues
and all the usual consistency and version problems before with Atomz.
Sam
Pat Meeks wrote:
> ATOMZ has just sent a message that it's going to include Google Ads to the
> small sites that now use ATOMZ without charge.
...
> So, are there any alternative free search sources that do not have
> advertising for sites smaller than 500 pages?
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