Any add-on software for searching by specific number of search-results??

[Noticedtrends]

Hello,

I'm seeking software (a search-engine utility; which may be described
as an "inverse of a web-hit counter) that would allow searches by
"specific numbers of results." An input example:

All GOOGLE full-text searches yielding "up to 100 results" of content
posted "within the previous 3 months"; the majority of results
consisting of content posted within the last 30 days."

I'm unable to find examples in DWOZ.com, GOOGLE Hacks, and
ResearchBuzz. There must be some type of software that can accomplish
searching by "specific number of search results."

Thank-you

 

[jjk2124]

I mean, you could write some with the Google API if you really wanted.
Google doesn't organize their data in such a way that they could give
you the results all that much more easily. The only problem is that
Google restricts you to 1000 searches in an hour. You could write a
more sophisticated program that asks and then parses, but then you
still might get caught, and you'd still have to do a LOT of queries.
Why on earth would you be interested in knowing the set of ALL queries
that yield a certain number of results or below along with the average
date of post?

 

[catherine yronwode]

I mean, you could write some with the Google API if you really wanted.
Google doesn't organize their data in such a way that they could give
you the results all that much more easily. The only problem is that
Google restricts you to 1000 searches in an hour. You could write a
more sophisticated program that asks and then parses, but then you
still might get caught, and you'd still have to do a LOT of queries.
Why on earth would you be interested in knowing the set of ALL queries
that yield a certain number of results or below along with the average
date of post?

It's an extremely interesting technical question, especially from a
sociological standpoint, and i would enjoy romping around with such
a utility for a few hours, no doubt, but in practical terms, since
most of us in alt.internet.search-engines, where this was
cross-posted, are working for the success of anywhere from one to a
few dozen web sites at a time, it is fairly easy for us to build or
own lists of keywords and their results-numbers (which we tend to
think of us "competitor numbers" rather than "numbers of results"),
limiting ourselves to the top 100 - 500 query-strings that are
relevant to our present work.

Still, i like your thinking. If you create this tool and make it
accessible to others via a daily updating web site, i'd be curious
enough to check it out.

Cordially,

cat yronwode

Hoodoo in Theory and Practice - http://www.luckymojo.com/hoodoo.html

 

[Noticedtrends]

I mean, you could write some with the Google API if you really wanted.
Google doesn't organize their data in such a way that they could give
you the results all that much more easily. The only problem is that
Google restricts you to 1000 searches in an hour. You could write a
more sophisticated program that asks and then parses, but then you
still might get caught, and you'd still have to do a LOT of queries.
Why on earth would you be interested in knowing the set of ALL queries
that yield a certain number of results or below along with the average
date of post?

The example of searching for well.......specifc numbers of
search-results e.g., 1-10 of 100 results (full-text searches) that have
occured within last 3 months; the majority of results occuring in the
last 30 days is significant for spotting emerging social, business,
etc. trends. Supposedly, when content increasingly contains specifc
keywords/keyphrases (over a period of 1 to 3 months), it may signal
that specialty trends are becoming more and more acknowledged to wider
audiences.

I''l take a closer look at the Google API to see if this application is
feasible.