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Hello!

I've been working hard for a couple of days to implement the search API's of Google, Yahoo, and MSN in ASP only.  I'm happy to say I've got it all working and I'm very, very happy with the results.  MSN Search was perhaps the trickiest one to get working, but actually very reliable and easy once I understood the format of the SOAP envelope:

http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema">
   
        http://schemas.microsoft.com/MSNSearch/2005/09/fex">
           
                AppID Goes Here
                Example Query
                en-GB
                Off
               
                   
                        Web
                        0
                        50
                        All
                   
               
           
       
   

My question related to the CultureInfo.  Using "en-GB", I can retrieve results similar to doing a normal browser based search at msn.co.uk, which is exactly what I want.

However, what I am ultimately trying to achieve is 2 sets of results:

1. UK results of pages from the UK only:
   Same as doing a normal search at www.msn.co.uk and selecting the tick box "Only from the United Kingdom"
   
2. UK results, from the web:
   Same as doinga normal search at www.msn.co.uk without putting a tick in the UK only box.

Does that make sense?

I can achieve this happily with the other API's (Google, and Yahoo).
So I'm assuming I can do with with MSN by selecting the right CultureInfo?

Hope there's an answer - thanks for any input!

BSolveIT

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Why is it, we always have problems trying to play these games? Now, there's a run time error. It worked okay till last night, October 4,2008. And some of these games haven't worked for months. Don't you have anybody who knows what they are doing? And when we order prizes, it's been months and we haven't even got them. Then when we e-mail you, you take forever to answer and then you give some lame excuse. Why even have these games? We can't play them. Something needs to be done.

MSDN Forums: Live Search - Hello,
  Has anyone noticed this new bug: When you receive search results, there is one field that represents an estimate of the TOTAL number of results. For example if you enter the query "microsoft", you can expect a TOTAL results in the millions. But recently the api has been returning the number of results requested (which is typically 10) instead of the total number of matches.
  To reproduce, visit the page: http://dev.live.com/livesearch/sdk/
The default query is "Seattle Mariners". You would expect a large number of TOTAL results. But the interactive demo says "Displaying 1 to 10 of 10 results". In other words, it says that the total number of results in the entire www is 10!
  Will the dev team be fixing this bug soon? We noticed this bug about 12 hours ago.
  Kind Regards,
  Kumar Ramanathan
  CTO, Relona

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Hello,

 

since Friday September 26, 2008 I sometimes see the following message for SourceType News in my error log:

 

System.InvalidOperationException: Client found response content type of 'text/html', but expected 'text/xml'. The request failed with the error message: -- An error occurred while processing your request.

Reference #179.5fb63554.1222485743.b4ebcf7 --. at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.ReadResponse(SoapClientMessage message, WebResponse response, Stream responseStream, Boolean asyncCall) at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.Invoke(String methodName, Object[] parameters) at com.msn.search.soap.MSNSearchService.Search(SearchRequest Request) at ____________.ProcessRequest(HttpContext context) at System.Web.HttpApplication.CallHandlerExecutionStep.System.Web.HttpApplication.IExecutionStep.Execute() at System.Web.HttpApplication.ExecuteStep(IExecutionStep step, Boolean& completedSynchronously)

 

Can someone from Microsoft please explain why this happens?

 

Thank you.

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Is there facility for using the Live Search API to perform like sitexplorer.search.yahoo.com?  This would be a very useful complement to the interface, and could spawn lots of creative development on the client side.

MSDN Forums: Live Search - Hi,pplz...Does Anybody know how can i get related searches, when I use SOAP in my application?
Does anybody have an example? Can you get It to me?!

P.S. Sorry for my English

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Does Windows Live Search have a feature similar to Google Adsense (for search), wherein I as the site owner can obtain monetary benefits, when users click on the ads in the live search results?