Dear Eros,<div><br></div><div>the DuckDuckGo search engine has a page where they list their sources:</div><div><a href="http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216399-sources">http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216399-sources</a></div>
<div>Of those that they list, only EntireWeb seems to be both general-purpose and free</div><div><a href="http://entireweb.com/services/">http://entireweb.com/services/</a></div><div>They allow 5000 HTTP requests per 24h period. Their conditions of service</div>
<div>seem to be targeted at custom search engines rather than corpus linguists,</div><div>so it may be useful to ask them if (or under what conditions) that's an acceptable use.</div><div><br></div><div>Best wishes,</div>
<div>Yannick<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Eros Zanchetta <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eros.zanchetta2@unibo.it">eros.zanchetta2@unibo.it</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi everyone,<br>
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last night I received the distressing news that the Bing Search API will soon stop being free.<br>
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The BootCaT corpus creation toolkit (<a href="http://bootcat.sslmit.unibo.it/" target="_blank">http://bootcat.sslmit.unibo.it/</a>) relies on it. Since we would like BootCaT to remain completely free, we are looking for a (free) alternative to Bing.<br>
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We're currently considering switching back to Google, which offers 100 free queries a day (not ideal, but it should be sufficient for creating a corpus).<br>
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Does anyone know of any other alternative?<br>
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Regards,<br>
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Eros Zanchetta<br>
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