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Are you trying to build your own index or do you just want to make a limited number of calls to someone else's index?

right now, we could use between 100k 1MM queries/day... if we had enough capital, we'd love to find a way to gather and product-ize the data. we think there are a lot of people who could use it, but that's a lot of work and huge up-front cost

we're in the position of not needing enough volume to build our own but not having enough revenue to afford to license a full index either.

Always tough to be in the in-between stages. Providing an index is something we'll probably consider in the near future. We did a survey with our users and found that a fair number would like to have an index of our/their crawled data.

I think there would be a healthy demand for that service

p.s. We're looking into integrating 80legs with Lucene/Nutch/Solr for indexing goodness.

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