I would like to ask a question about Google Custom Search.
I have an advertisement web (I am not sure of the specification "advertisement web", I am not a native speaker - users are inserting some things they want to buy or sell).
For searching on the web I use Google Custom Search and I am satisfied except one problem:
On every advertisement page (detail page of the advertisement) there is a list of similar advertisements and Google is indexing these advertisements, too.
For example: I am looking for "Ford Escort" and results of searching are:
1. Ford Escort (the "true" advertisement)
2. Ford Escort (similar advertisement for Ford Focus) - I don't want this one to show in results.
What can I do?
Thank You very much.
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Having had the luxury of having my fun and earning my bread well away from MS products for years, I am today trying to programmatically search with Bing Azure (wearing gloves) basically because I thought getting a google api was complex. So I headed down Data Market and issued this (let's say with perl's LWP which has been used to pass credentials):
https://api.datamarket.azure.com/Bing/Search/v1/Composite?%24skip=0&%24top=10&%24format=json&Sources=%27web%27&Query=%27abc%27
which works.
What I am now trying to find out is
1) how to tell the Bing search api to restrict results to a specific domain (e.g. ".org" or even a single website "www.wikipedia.org").
2) how to tell the search engine to restrict results to a specific filetype, e.g. 'PDF', 'XML' (or PDF and XML if that's possible)
3) if there is a simple list of the features/keywords in the GET request of the latest bing search API. Please no MS links if you please - i am really tired.
I have seen "site:.org" working on the bing search website when doing a manual search. And read about "filetype:pdf" working too.
Any hints?
bliako
cracked it:
... Query=%27abc site:.com filetype:pdf%27
at the point when m$ realises it costs to be clumsy
bliako
I'd like to get a better idea of what people are searching for when they're using our website.
Just curious, what's the best way to monitor what's being entered into the search field in Plone 4? I saw this product — http://plone.org/products/ifsearchmonitor — but it's an old one. Has anyone used it with Plone 4 or know of something similar?
Okay I don't know why it took me so long to realize this, but it's built into Google Analytics. Here are instructions: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1012264?hl=en
And the search query parameters I used for Plone are: ##search, SearchableText, advanced_search
using google analytic's site search won't track users using the livesearch (without pressing enter and submit to the ##search view.
for awstats i use this extra section to track both:
# updated version for plone 4.3
# /livesearch_reply?q=testsuche
# /##search?SearchableText=testsuche
# /##updated_search?SearchableText=testsuche
# livesearches shown as q=, normal searches with just the phrase
ExtraSectionName1="Plone Suchabfragen"
ExtraSectionCodeFilter1="200 304"
ExtraSectionCondition1="URL,\/##search||URL,\/search||URL,\/##updated_search||URL,\/livesearch_reply"
ExtraSectionFirstColumnTitle1="Search:"
#ExtraSectionFirstColumnValues1="QUERY_STRING,SearchableText=([^&]+)||QUERY_STRING,q=([^&]+)"
ExtraSectionFirstColumnValues1="QUERY_STRING,SearchableText=([^&]+)||QUERY_STRING,(q=[^&]+)"
ExtraSectionFirstColumnFormat1="%s"
ExtraSectionStatTypes1=PL
ExtraSectionAddAverageRow1=0
ExtraSectionAddSumRow1=1
MaxNbOfExtra1=100
MinHitExtra1=1
if you want to track the livesearch in google analytics, you'll need to use event tracking: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/events
so I am starting a website for finding products and I was wondering is it possible to make a search where for example your looking to buy a laptop, and lets say and theres a check box that says "Intel CPU" and "AMD CPU" and once you mark all the specs you want it will give you search results on a specific laptop with those specs! I apologize for my question being so long, But is it possible and how do I approach doing it?
Thanks,
Reese.
Well, You could always have an ajax request sent whenever user clicks the check box and return the list from php (which will connect to the database) and update the list. A lot of websites use this feature.
for my job, I'm looking into an idea in which people would use Google Search by Image and use any celebrity photo they find. Google would return the results and then on our end, a there'd be a database of professionals showing how to get that specific look.
I'm assuming this is extremely unlikely to do, based on that users could use ANY photo.
So, is there a way that I could have about 100 or so celebrity photos that Google Image results could compare to and then choose the one that is closest.
Basically:
Drag drop photo of Britney Spears
Google searches with that image
Google's results compare the top images with our 100, and selects the closest match.
User gets to see video of how to get Britney Spears look.
I'm not a programmer, but looking for some API or Search by Image extension that could make this remotely possible for the programmers here at my job. Does something like that (a search by image api) exist? The best I could find was just the support page, which is hardly of any help: http://support.google.com/images/bin/answer.py?hl=en&p=searchbyimagepage&answer=1325808
You can easily search by an existing image by inserting this into your address bar:
https://www.google.com/searchbyimage?site=search&sa=X&image_url=YOUR_IMAGE_URL
Example:
https://www.google.com/searchbyimage?site=search&sa=X&image_url=http://cdn.sstatic.net/Sites/stackoverflow/company/img/logos/so/so-icon.png
Sorry to say, but the Google image API is deprecated:
Important: The Google Image Search API has been officially deprecated as of May 26, 2011. It will continue to work as per our deprecation policy, but the number of requests you may make per day may be limited.
Quite sure there are some alternatives (http://www.tineye.com/ and http://mrisa.mage.me.uk)
Update (2013): There is now Google Custom Search which allows image searches.
These answers are quite obsolete, but the question comes up in searches. So, the Google Vision API has the "web detection" feature that does a reverse image search. First 1000 requests per month are free, $3.50/1000 afterwards.
I think Google Web Detection could be a solution for you. Google moved it permanently from Image search
You can do it via www.images.google.com but only from a browser (lets you upload your own image and compares it to similar).
I'm working on doing it from code (not from browser).
I had the same problem and came up with two solutions:
There are a number of APIs that give reverse image search results nowadays. The ones I used are https://reverseimageapi.com and TinEye.com.
As the selected answer mentions, you can easily scrape this information but will almost certainly need rotating proxies to prevent being banned by the search engine. There are plenty of proxy rotation services (Zyte, Oxylabs, ScrapingBee, etc.) to make you life easier.
I ended up going with option 1 due to the upkeep of scraping search engines and elements changing / breaking.
alt text http://blog.chomperstomp.com/img/wikipediaGoogle.png
How can I get a search box like this listed for my website?
You can't choose what todo with these links it's under Google controls, more info here
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/search-within-site-tale-of.html
This feature will now occur when we detect a high probability that a user wants more refined search results within a specific site.
Essentially, you can't. This is only likely to occur on high-traffic sites with usage cases that lend themselves to this sort of search-within-search.