search engine for asp.net website

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is it a possible to make a search engine to works better than google and yahoo ?

i should do a mini project for my internet engineering course.
my website need a search engine (( asp.net ( c# ) )) Website.

when a user search word in my website, my search engine should send a request to Google,yahoo,... and receive their first page links and show that links as a result in my Website. in fact i need to send http request to another site and parse the results. i don't know how should i start and how to do it.
is there any guide for this project ?

"is it a possible to make a search engine to works better than google and yahoo ?" - Yes, if you are a supremely intelligent extra-terrestrial being. — Ant P, May 01 '13 at 09:32
@AntP yeah i know but my actual question is that other question ;) — Mohammad Olfatmiri, May 01 '13 at 09:33
@oli so you aren't building a search engine, you want to know how to issue a http request to another site and parse the results? — Nicholas King, May 01 '13 at 09:35
pff google sucks, everyone can make a better one. /end joke No its not possible, but, google has some good devtools for that — DiederikEEn, May 01 '13 at 09:36
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7908972/how-to-write-a-http-request — Nicholas King, May 01 '13 at 09:48

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered May 01 '13 at 09:35

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Better? No.

The same, yes:

Google custom search API: https://developers.google.com/custom-search/v1/overview

answered May 01 '13 at 09:35

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score 3 · Answer 2 · answered May 01 '13 at 09:35

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I guess you are looking for something like Google's Custom Search Engine.

Quote from the link:

Make searching your site easy

Sign in to Custom Search Engine With Google Custom Search, add a search box to your homepage to help people find what they need on your website.

answered May 01 '13 at 09:35

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I think he's looking for an API – Nathan May 01 '13 at 09:36
@Nathan i want to send a request to google and then parse the result to extract links from that page – Mohammad Olfatmiri May 01 '13 at 09:42
@Oli thought so - see my answer below. – Nathan May 01 '13 at 09:43
@Oli: Then Nathan's answer probably is the better solution for you. – Christian Specht May 01 '13 at 09:44

search engine for asp.net website

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