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tomdesmedt
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tomdesmedt
11y ago
Hi. As the author of the article, here’s some background information. This article was written in 2012 as part of my PhD dissertation ( http://arxiv.org/pdf/1410.0281 ), which consists of a number of computational creati
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tomdesmedt
14y ago
The source code has a base SearchEngine class and a Result class, which streamline the input and output parameters across different web services, so it is not difficult to add new services (= subclass of SearchEngine). There are also some g
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tomdesmedt
16y ago
The reason is mainly 1) licensing and 2) integration. I took what I found that fitted the BSD license and wrote the rest myself. The idea was having all the things I needed in a single, concise package. I like carrying around 1 MacGyver kni