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Search Results on Your Website, Try The Feed

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

The feed I promised you last time is now ready and you can now get our search results directly on your own website, allowing you to make your own search engine or use the results as additional content on your pages.

You can test it by simply including this URL in you website as an iframe or directly form PHP or some other scripting language.

http://api.secretsearchenginelabs.com/html-feed.php?q=obama&start=2&num=3

In this example q is the query “obama”, start is 2 meaning we skip the first result and start from result 2 (not page 2), num is 3 meaning we show only three results, namely the results number 2, 3 and 4

A normal page one query for “hosting” would be

http://api.secretsearchenginelabs.com/html-feed.php?q=hosting&start=1&num=10

The results are plain HTML with CSS calsses that allows you to customize the look and feel of the results.

There’s a link back to Secret Search Engine Labs at the bottom of the results which you are required to display.

Please tell me you experience with this, as I’d be happy to improve on the interface if you find some issues!

Happy searching!

Simon
CEO and founder,
Secret Search Engine Labs