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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / Download to read search engine results

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Battoad
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Posted: 12th Jul 2010 17:37
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I am attempting to make a SEO program and one of the tools I would like to add requires that I can "read" a page of Search Engine results, e.g If I open up google search engine and type in "Games", I will get 1000's of pages of results. Although I initially just need to read page 1 results, how would I "read" them within DBPro.
I can use the urlmon dll to read specific web page source, but the search engine results page is very different. Does anyone have any ideas?

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Battoad
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Posted: 12th Jul 2010 18:25
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OK, sorry, sorted, missed the obvious, cut and paste to text doc, then analyse.

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Sixty Squares
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Posted: 16th Jul 2010 16:30
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Quote: "cut and paste to text doc, then analyse."


Would you mind explaining this a little more? What did you cut/paste? I'm just curious, you don't have to explain if you don't want to.

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RedFlames
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Posted: 16th Jul 2010 16:45
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I'd guess he calls something like
"http://www.google.de/search?q=" + Search$
via the urlmon DLL to download it as a HTML-document, and then search the file for the Links?
I sometimes did that to download big image archives (e.g. a webcomic) or filter search results as well (wasn't a Web search engine though)
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Battoad
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Posted: 17th Jul 2010 12:06
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Quote: "What did you cut/paste?"

Actually i meant "Copy and Paste".
As RedFlames says, i can then search for "links" and track a particular web address etc etc. to see how it is performing with regard to SEO.

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Sixty Squares
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Posted: 17th Jul 2010 13:42
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Ah, thanks guys .


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