Comparison of Search Engine Interfaces

This research project compared the results obtained from the web user interface (WUI) vs. the web search APIs for Google, MSN, and Yahoo.

Publications

Frank McCown and Michael L. Nelson. Agreeing to Disagree: Search Engines and their Public Interfaces. ACM IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2007). June 17-23, 2007. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. To appear.
Frank McCown and Michael L. Nelson. Poster: Search Engines and Their Public Interfaces: Which APIs are the Most Synchronized? 16th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2007). May 8-12, 2007. Banff, Alberta, Canada. p. 1197-1198. Paper and Poster

Search Terms

50 popular terms from Lycos 50 in April 2006
50 computer science terms from Wikipedia

Results

View the many graphs for the queries from May 29, 2006 to Oct 28, 2006 here.

Scripts

Run these scripts to compile the data and insert into MySQL database.

Queries

Total daily queries
Google MSN Yahoo

WUI API WUI API WUI API

Indexed/cached 100 200 100 100 100 100

Total backlinks 100 100 100 100 100 100

Total site 100 100 100 100 100 100

Top 100 results for terms 100 1,000 100 200 100 100

Total 400 1,400 400 500 400 400

Total daily queries
	Google	MSN	Yahoo
	WUI	API	WUI	API	WUI	API
Indexed/cached	100	200	100	100	100	100
Total backlinks	100	100	100	100	100	100
Total site	100	100	100	100	100	100
Top 100 results for terms	100	1,000	100	200	100	100
Total	400	1,400	400	500	400	400

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