Google search

[Todd Slater]

On 10/6/05, Rajiv Vyas <rajiv1 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Would the RSS or Atom feed of the search results help you any?
> >
>
>
>  Well, what I am looking for is "how many" news articles are searchable
> today. For example, on news.google.com, if you type "linux Ubuntu" there are
> 106 articles and for "Linux SuSE" there are 546.
>
>  The goal is to see traction in media for open source, Ubuntu, etc. over a
> period of one year and derive some conclusions.

Right, so maybe  you could pull the RSS/Atom feed with wget and do
some processing on it (like count the occurrences of <ITEM></ITEM> or
whatever for each term you're searching for).

Or do the search via wget and grep for the # of search results.

Just a thought.

Todd