Need help for an algorithm

[werushka]

I need to make a script that searches specific sites for a person name ex "Tom Hanks" and gets how many articles or discussions there are on those sites in a time frame.

 

Results: Searched for "Tom Hanks", there were approximately 1200 articles or discussions created between Feb 2/Feb9, 2009. in the following sites (Site 1) (Site 2).

 

 

I would really appreciate heads up on this. Would it be also possible to use google to search specific sites for specific words during a given time frame. Maybe a syntax.

 

This will be a challenge for me

 

 

[MadTechie]

So search 'www.imdb.com' for 'tom hanks' in the last Year you could do this:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?as_epq=tom+hanks&ft=i&as_sitesearch=www.imdb.com&as_qdr=y

 

 

to search for a date range, Well Google offers some options regarding the date when a page was updated, but they are pretty fuzzy: you can restrict the results to pages updated in the past 3, 6, or 12 months.

 

There's also a daterange operator, with the syntax daterange:startdate-enddate. Unfortunately, the dates must be entered as Julian dates (the Julian date is calculated as the number of days since January 1, 4713 BC).

 

Hope that helps

[werushka]

ok.

Is is possible to seach like 2 sites imdb.com and movies.com at the same time

 

i tried like

site:imdb.com, movies.com

also I tried

site:"imdb.com", "movies.com"

 

but both of them didnt work

[MadTechie]

Humm..not sure i don't think so

[Ayon]

maybe something like this

 

function SearchMovieDb($keyword) {
$keyword = str_replace(" ","+",$keyword);
$content[0] = "http://www.imdb.com/find?s=all&q=$keyword";
$content[1] = "http://www.fandango.com/GlobalSearch.aspx?wssac=131&tab=Movies+People&q=$keyword&wssaffid=11828_MoviesDotCom&repos=People";
$imdb = file_get_contents($content[0]);
$movies = file_get_contents($content[1]);
}

 

i might have missunderstood your question completely tho...

[werushka]

Thanks avon for the feedback...I rather make thing simple.

 

Finally I have decided that I will choose google as they do the best in indexing.

 

I have made a search query as follows

 

 
allintext:  "Jan,28 2009" | "28 Jan 2009" | 28 Jan 2009" |"1/28/2009" | "1/28/09" | "1/28/2009" | "1.28.2009" | "2.2.2009" "Tom Hanks" site:imdb.com 

 

this query pretty much gets the result for tom hanks in imdb for that specific date...The query is not perfect and can be narrowed.

 

I need to make a script or some sort that sums the total number of links that Google finds for the above query and store in a database. I would appreciate some feedback.