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Dmitri
Dmitri asked in Business & FinanceAdvertising & MarketingSearch Engine Optimisation · 9 years ago

Search engine queries?

I am going to build a site that scrapes the results of bing and yahoo. But first I need to know what each of the url parameters mean..

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=site&fr=sfp&fr2=&...

what do iscqry, fr, fr2 mean?

http://www.bing.com/search?q=site&go=&qs=n&form=QB...

what do pq, sc, sp,form ,qs,go mean?

Is there a place where i could find information about those parameters?

Update:

Also what is all that gibbrish, after ylt

http://uk.search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A7x9QfkBxH5...

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  • Mark
    9 years ago
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    Why not just buy a scraping script and look at the code? No sense re-inventing the wheel.

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