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Infocious can return our search results in XML format. This service is free and really simple to use. To have Infocious return the results in XML format, either click on the XML button on the search results page or append `&fmt=xml` to your query URL. For example, searching for "San Francisco" and have the results in XML format, use the following URL: http://search.infocious.com/q?s=san+francisco&fmt=xml. Our free XML search feed is restricted to the first 50 results. If you are interested in a full and/or customized XML feed for your site or engine, please email us at sales@infocious.com. For the free XML feed, here is a simple HTML snippet for a search box that give you results in XML format:
Search the Web [ XML feed ] :
<!--search with Infocious, Web (XML)--> <form action="http://search.infocious.com/q" method="get" name="f" accept-charset="utf-8"> <table bgcolor="#ffffff"> <tr><td><a href="http://search.infocious.com/"><img border=0 src="http://corp.infocious.com/images/infocious_web_small.jpg"><a></td> <td> <input type="text" name="s" size="30" maxlength="1024" value=""> <input type="hidden" name="fmt" value="xml"> <input type="submit" name="ISbtn" value="Search" title="Click here for XML"> </tr> </table> </form>
This is what it will look like on your site:

The results in XML format are really simple to interpret. Here is an example of the output of the query "san francisco":
// indicates the beginning of the response <response> // how many results where found for this query <hits> 926653 </hits> // the query <query> san francisco </query> // a result item is enclosed in <result></result> tags <result> // the url of the result <url> http://www.sfgate.com/ </url> // record number of the result (1 is first result, 2 second and so on) <rnum> 1 </rnum> // title of the result <title> SF Gate : News and Information for the San Francisco Bay Area </title> // summary snippet <sum> City edges San Diego for institute \| More stories U.S. Chomp-ion Sonya... </sum> // if the result is listed in DMOZ this is the URL of its category <dmozurl> http://www.dmoz.org/News/Newspapers/Regional/United_States/California/ </dmozurl> // if the result is listed in DMOZ this is the title of the category <dmoztitle> News/Newspapers/Regional/United_States/California/ </dmoztitle> </result> ... <result> // more <result></result> items follow ... </result> ... // indicates the end of the response </response>

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