[Corpora-List] Web search engine for research

[Thierry.Poibeau at lipn.univ-paris13.fr]

Dear Diego,

As far as I know, Exalead includes this kind of features (extended query
posibilities): http://www.exalead.com/search/ (see "recherche avancé/advanced
search").

Best,
Thierry Poibeau


Quoting Diego Molla-Aliod <diego.molla-aliod at mq.edu.au>:

> 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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