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How about a layer over Google? Take Google's search results and filter them. Any obvious barriers to that?

• tyingq 7y ago
  They are pretty aggressive about detecting that and throwing up captchas.
  • swayvil 7y ago
    see user smt88's idea above.
• jasode 7y ago
  >Any obvious barriers to that? Rate limits.[0] One can't really build a robust and comprehensive (server-side) search engine on top of Google's search API. In other words, Google Inc isn't going to provide an API so powerful that one can build an "alternative to Google" with it. On the other hand, if you're talking about a "client-side" filter instead of a new search engine, (e.g. a client-side webscraper that flips through the Google results pages), you'd run into multiple problems. E.g. random CAPTCHAS screwing up the automation script, and the difficulty of creating a "rules engine" (e.g. machine learning) on your local computer that recognizes blog articles with a commercial slant. [0] https://www.google.com/search?q=google+search+api+rate+limit https://www.google.com/search?q=google+search+api+rate+limit
  • swayvil 7y ago
    see user smt88's idea above.