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[Rajiv Vyas]

On 10/6/05, Todd Slater <dontodd at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/6/05, Rajiv Vyas <rajiv1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > 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 <http://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.



That might help, since I don't need to read those stories. I am not sure
though if new.google.com <http://new.google.com> allows to you wget
informations. Also, how much programming would this involve as I am not a
programmer?

Thanks,

Rajiv
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