I have used yahoo api for web search, we could get the totalResults available of resultset field as return value of WebSearch method.
I observed the results are different compared to manual search, they are much much lesss, like if the manual result shows 64 results, webserach shows only 2.
following is the code snippet I used in VB.net
basedomain = Replace(url, "http://", "", 1)
basedomain = Mid(basedomain, 1, InStr(basedomain, "/") - 1)

url = "links:" & url & "-site:" & basedomain ' Url is used for search any keyword term
Dim yahoo As New YahooSearchService
Dim yahooresult As Yahoo.API.WebSearchResponse.ResultSet
yahooresult = yahoo.WebSearch("EP4vW1bV34Fh4RZ94Z.RPOwOKG4Roi5hN TXJAWY89t4EjQzUeVgTy27FkuPrzTeo0DZlPjlx", url, "all", 10, 1, "any", True, True, "en")

MsgBox(yahooresult.totalResultsAvailable)
nyahooresult = yahooresult.totalResultsAvailable


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Because the API queries come from a different datacentre than the manual search.

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I have one question
In above I have use Websearch, can you tell me what is difference between Websearch and site explorer ,
Is site explorer give correct result than websearch , then how i use site explorer there is no method found in site explorer for totalResultavailable
Please send me reply as early as possible it is urgent?

There is a clue in the names!

websearch is all of the index for all websites.

siteexplorer is specific to a particular website

Originally Posted by chrishirst

There is a clue in the names!

websearch is all of the index for all websites.

siteexplorer is specific to a particular website

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but in siteexplore there is no method found like totalresultavailable.I have count the result in yahoo. which is suitable for yahoo count.

You will have to ask the API developers why they didn't include that method.

Thank you for unswer, i was thinking about it also