<story><title>Google Deactivates Web Search API</title><url>https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/web?v=1.0&amp;rsz=small&amp;safe=active&amp;q=foobar&amp;max-results=1&amp;v=2&amp;alt=json</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>visarga</author><text>We need a search engine that allows for deep search. It should be an open and cooperative project, and users could possibly run an instance of the spider&amp;#x2F;indexer as payment for executing searches, so it could be like a cross between bittorrent and Tor.&lt;p&gt;A free search engine would enable API calls and also boost privacy and freedom from the likes of Google. We have built a lot of experience about search engines since 2000, we have access to scientific papers, cheap cloud servers and a huge interest in freeing search, so I think the open source community do it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sdrinf</author><text>Writing an open, and distributed web crawler &amp;#x2F; indexer is a nice programming exercise.&lt;p&gt;Writing an &amp;quot;objective&amp;quot; ranking function (for any values of &amp;quot;objective&amp;quot;) in an open, and distributed manner is structurally not favoured by humanity&amp;#x27;s current incentive structure. As in:&lt;p&gt;* a dev team have to agree on signals, and weights: &amp;quot;SERP quality&amp;quot; has dedicated &lt;i&gt;teams of people&lt;/i&gt; assigned for specific verticals @ Google; replicating this in a distributed manner will be played politically&lt;p&gt;* Assuming any significant usage, the second you submit ranking code to public github repo, the algo will be played by thousand SEO scammers to their advantage&lt;p&gt;* Executing custom ranking function on other people&amp;#x27;s computer not only introduces security risks, but will have scammers setting up honeypots for collecting other people&amp;#x27;s ranking signals, and playing accordingly.</text></comment>
<story><title>Google Deactivates Web Search API</title><url>https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/web?v=1.0&amp;rsz=small&amp;safe=active&amp;q=foobar&amp;max-results=1&amp;v=2&amp;alt=json</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>visarga</author><text>We need a search engine that allows for deep search. It should be an open and cooperative project, and users could possibly run an instance of the spider&amp;#x2F;indexer as payment for executing searches, so it could be like a cross between bittorrent and Tor.&lt;p&gt;A free search engine would enable API calls and also boost privacy and freedom from the likes of Google. We have built a lot of experience about search engines since 2000, we have access to scientific papers, cheap cloud servers and a huge interest in freeing search, so I think the open source community do it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pgeorgi</author><text>The second paragraph seems to describe &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;yacy.net&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;yacy.net&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>