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I had to use Bing and Yahoo search APIs because Google won't let me programmatically use Google search. They are awful and combining them won't help.

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Yahoo Search is already powered by Bing – since 2009.[1]

[1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8174763.stm

which proves the anecdote comment above is probably BS

That's a little much. They do offer a Search API [1] (well, until Friday). Just not terribly surprising it wasn't any better than Bing (since it is Bing).

[1] https://developer.yahoo.com/boss/search/

Indeed. BOSS was available until recently; the XML API for search is available as a replacement.

DuckDuckGo is a proxy for Bing searches. However, DuckDuckGo uses Yahoo BOSS Search API for images, SoundCloud Search API for audio, and YouTube Search API for video.

At first I tried scraping DuckDuckGo but couldn't because my IP was being recorded at some point where it was being throttled. So I looked a little deeper and found the sources of their search data. So I use the services listed above directly.

lol I didn't realize that the Yahoo image search was powered by Bing. The web based search for images return the same, however, the APIs are returning different image sets. The Yahoo version is better.

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