[Corpora-List] Web search engine for research

[Diego Molla-Aliod]

I'm trying to replicate some experiments by Magnini et al. "Is It the
Right Answer? Exploiting Web Redundancy for Answer Validation". They
used AltaVista, but this search engine has changed since it was taken
by Yahoo! and as far as I can tell it doesn't support the old
AltaVista query options. Can someone tell of a search engine with an
API that supports the following?

 - AltaVista's old NEAR and boolean operators.
 - A reliable estimate of the number of matching pages. In particular,
Google's counts have changed radically during my experiments and this
can't be attributed to changes in the Web.

More generally, does anybody have a recommendation for a web search
engine with an API and with a large set of indexed pages and
transparent retrieval models?

Diego

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