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SoapException on MSN search

7640 byte By nanakamado at 2008-3-7
The sample program which is included in "MSN Search Web Service SDK Version 0.60 (Beta).msi" does not work anymore. If you have same problems or some good solutions, please give me information. I sent e-mail to mailto:msrchdocf@microsoft.com. (this is include in the document of ...

"Client Error"

484 byte By P.Prashant at 2008-3-6
hi, I did an test appliction using which i got the perfect result. but since yesterday (18th April 2006) test application is returning "Client Error" SourceRequest.Source is - Phone Book can any one help me to find out what can be the problem. ~Prashant ...

Local Search Issues

489 byte By Vizun at 2008-3-5
Hi there, To get right to the point, I've successfully connected to the Search Web Service and am able to retrieve searched-for items when I set the Source to 'Web'. However, I've changed the Source to 'PhoneBook' and keep getting 0 results. The API (and other threads here) say that this ...

How can i get Account and TOKEN for WEB services

221 byte By zainshah at 2008-3-3
i want to use microsoft web services. please some body tell me how can i get account and token for accessing the web services. and it will be more helpful if provide me step by step prcedure for using web services. thanx

10,000 Search Query Limit

140 byte By Apparel1 at 2008-3-1
What happens if I go over 10,000 search queries per day? Do I have an option to purchase additional queries? Thank you

I am not able to sign in on MSN messenger Please help anyone!

684 byte By Jenny777 at 2008-2-28
Recently i have been having porbelms with signing in on MSN, i think it is due to me agreeing to download the latest MSN. From this moment i am not able to sign in. I clicked on troubleshoot (80048883) and it showed 'Your gateway appears to be offline' which i dont know what it means. Then ...

Many weeks no problems, now java.lang.ClassCastException

1315 byte By wynfred at 2008-2-27
My MSN search application had been working fine for many weeks. This morning, without having made any changes, I'm getting the following error (in Java-based CFML application): AxisFault faultCode: { http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/}Server.userException faultSubcode: faultString: ...

Client Error on search call

4856 byte By charliestrause at 2008-2-26
On a simple search call, I'm getting the error Client Error. Already deleted/regenerated AppId value this morning. I have tried this on my PC where I have web developer express (VS 2005) installed, and on a server that has .Net framework 1.1 installed (created stub using wsdl from 1.1, and ...

A few short questions

273 byte By Justin-M at 2008-2-25
Hi there, Just wondering if it is possible to search regional search engines using the msn api. For example to query msn.ie or msn.co.uk Also did I hear talk about being able to get sponsored adds through the api? Cheers, Justin.

not well-formed (invalid token) error

428 byte By Regent2 at 2008-2-24
I keep getting this error that crashes my program: not well-formed (invalid token) at line 1, column 1945, byte 2017 at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/i686-linux/XML/Parser.pm line 187 What does this error mean and is there a workaround? Looking at my log files, my initial impression is ...

Offset and Count attributes of a SourceRequest

631 byte By Cantabrian at 2008-2-23
Hi there! Thanks for the great service, enjoying it immensely. I've found Offset and Count attributes to be useful in displaying results above and beyond the basic 50. As I could establish, Offset let's you receive results on a search query starting from a particular position. However my ...

1 result less...

147 byte By JeanFuertes at 2008-2-22
I have been receiving 1 result less than what I ask for... Am I doing something wrong? Is this a bug? Is there an official response to this issue?

No results with inurl: parameter

743 byte By fmccown at 2008-2-22
Apparently there is a bug in the MSN search algorithms (and API) when performing searches using the inurl: parameter with a number. Example: site:www.cs.odu.edu inurl:~cs772 This results in no found records although the search site:www.cs.odu.edu cs772 results in numerous URLs in the form ...

Accessing MSN Search Web Service from Perl

3427 byte By Daniel2005 at 2008-2-21
I've been trying to build a MSN Search API client with Perl using SOAP::Lite to interface with the SOAP server. I'm not an expert using Perl or SOAP so any help would be appreciated.Perl Codeuse SOAP::Lite +trace;my $appID = 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx';my $msn = ...

Access RunTime installations

528 byte By db9 at 2008-2-20
I do a number of RunTime installations and ran into a new issue today. The application cannot find the RT module to open the Access database. The same RT works great on other computers, both Laptop and Desktop images. Is there a way to run an Access RT app from a CD as a read only application? ...

Setting multiple cultureinfo

155 byte By Andreas12345 at 2008-2-19
Hello. Does anyone know whether its possible to set multiple cultureinfos for a query and get results in multiple languages? Regards, Andreas

Getting more than 250 results

1071 byte By fmccown at 2008-2-18
When I use the MSN API to search for more than 250 results (50 at a time), I am continually given the last 50 results (200-249) over and over again. This error is easily duplicated. Just search for any common word like "test" and use offest=200 and count=50 (return 50 results, starting at ...

Not able to match the results

1195 byte By P.Prashant at 2008-2-17
hi, i have created an application which resembles the local search of "WLL (Windows live local http://local.live.com/), the result displayed are different i want to show the result same as the one displayed in local.live.com Example Searching string "Seattle, Washington" total ...

Consuming MSN Search Web Service from PHP

5214 byte By MarianoIglesias at 2008-2-16
Good news about Microsoft allowing access to their MSN Search service through SOAP ! It was definitely about time. I've been trying to build a MSN Search API client with PHP. I'm using nuSOAP to interface with the SOAP server. However, I'm having a little trouble getting it to work. Just for ...

MSN Search Results For A Meta Search Engine

215 byte By MetaSearch at 2008-2-15
Hi, Could someone please tell me who I contact to seek written permission from Microsoft so that I can use the MSN Search results in a Meta Search Engine I am developing for online use? Thanks

optional parameters for xml

486 byte By Nataraja at 2008-2-15
Hi, I am having an xml URL like http://soap.search.msn.com/webservices.asmx?wsdl .Now i would like to know are there any optional parameters that can be used after the '?' mark. I want to see the xml behaviour..If any one have a comment on it, plz let me know. Thanks in advance. --Nataraja ...

Problems with Web Service and PHP

1367 byte By n-k at 2008-2-15
I'm trying to use the MSN Search Web Service with PHP and NuSOAP, but I can't get it to work. No matter what parameters and what values I use, I always get the following error: array(3) { ["faultcode"]=> string(14) "soapenv:Client" ["faultstring"]=> ...

Msn Web services ?

316 byte By NavneetSharma at 2008-2-15
Any body tell me is msn search provides web service for free to use. If payble plz send me link for it. Also tell about limitation of use. I have to use it for building new tools on http://www.way2seo.com Thanx ...

No results after first SourceResponse

1272 byte By pbriggs at 2008-2-15
Hi, Before reading your response to the "What constitutes a query?" post I'd been handling searches for more than 50 results by submitting one SearchRequest after another using a single SourceRequest in each, and increasing the offset each time. That worked fine, but after reading ...

What consitutes a query?

325 byte By Regent2 at 2008-2-14
I know that the max queries in a day is 10,000, and the maximum results per page is 50. If I have a query that has 1000 results, so that it returns 20 pages at 50 results a page, does this still count as just 1 query towards my 10,000 limit OR does it count as 20 queries since 20 pages were ...

Client found response content of type '', but expected 'text/xml'

1019 byte By charliestrause at 2008-2-14
I have a web service that uses the MSN search web service. When its called by a client using the SOAP toolkit, after about 10 calls, the try/catch block around the MSN search call within my web service starts to catch this error: Client found response content of type '', but expected ...

I am not able to sign in on MSN messenger Please help anyone!

684 byte By Jenny777 at 2008-2-13
Recently i have been having porbelms with signing in on MSN, i think it is due to me agreeing to download the latest MSN. From this moment i am not able to sign in. I clicked on troubleshoot (80048883) and it showed 'Your gateway appears to be offline' which i dont know what it means. Then ...

MSN SEARCH SUCKS!

222 byte By Chilenazoo! at 2008-2-13
Google search is the best... you can search videos, images, web pages, it has his own blogs, the famous Google Earth which it's great and some other cool staff. What do you think about msn against google ?

Local Search Issues

489 byte By Vizun at 2008-2-12
Hi there, To get right to the point, I've successfully connected to the Search Web Service and am able to retrieve searched-for items when I set the Source to 'Web'. However, I've changed the Source to 'PhoneBook' and keep getting 0 results. The API (and other threads here) say that this ...

Maximum number of site: arguments?

198 byte By SamiVaaraniemi at 2008-2-11
I could not find anything in the documentation about an upper limit to the number of site: parameters we can submit in one web search query (combined with the OR operator). Is there an upper limit?

MSN Search API implemented in ASP only

3044 byte By BSolveIT at 2008-2-10
Hello!I've been working hard for a couple of days to implement the search API's of Google, Yahoo, and MSN in ASP only. I'm happy to say I've got it all working and I'm very, very happy with the results. MSN Search was perhaps the trickiest one to get working, but actually very reliable and ...

Maximum number of site: arguments?

197 byte By SamiVaaraniemi at 2008-2-10
I could not find anything in the documentation about an upper limit to the number of site: parameters we can submit in one web search query (combined with the OR operator). Is there an upper limit?

MSN Search Web Service SDK Version 0.60 Now Available

53 byte By mp2005 at 2008-2-8
Any more info about SearchTags? How to use them, etc?

I am not able to sign in on MSN messenger Please help anyone!

679 byte By Jenny777 at 2008-2-8
Recently i have been having porbelms with signing in on MSN, i think it is due to me agreeing to download the latest MSN. From this moment i am not able to sign in. I clicked on troubleshoot (80048883) and it showed 'Your gateway appears to be offline' which i dont know what it means. Then i ...

No results with inurl: parameter

705 byte By fmccown at 2008-2-7
Apparently there is a bug in the MSN search algorithms (and API) whenperforming searches using the inurl: parameter with a number. Example:site:www.cs.odu.edu inurl:~cs772This results in no found records although the searchsite:www.cs.odu.edu cs772results in numerous URLs in the form ...

XmlDataSource?

1902 byte By HosamKamel at 2008-2-7
hi,how i can use XmlDataSource to handle complex and nested Xml Structure in asp.net 2.0 or any other efficient waythe Xml Looks like that:<MailList> <Mail> <Title>Mail</Title> <Attachments> <Attachment id =1> ...

How to change a search result?

565 byte By lowster11 at 2008-2-7
My site currently ranks #5 in MSN search for the keyword "computer support" http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=computer+support+&FORM=MSNH&srch_type=0Does anyone know how I can get the bot to show www.lowster11.com instead of the site without the www it is refering to ...

MSN Search Web Service SDK Version 0.60 Now Available

281 byte By Marco at 2008-2-7
I have noticed that I cannot get more than 50 results back. Is this a new limit?</P> I am using the SourceRequest.Count = 1000 and 9 come back. Any number up to 50 works but anything over 50 only brings in 9 records.</P> Am I doing something wrong?</P> Thanks.</P> </P>

Showing non-english caracters in search results gives bad results

529 byte By Dyvel at 2008-2-6
HiI have a problem with special characters like ? ? ? where used in the searchstring doesn't display the proper result from MSN. I have tried to do a string rewrite replacing the character with it'sentity name ie replacing ? with "& Aring;" but that gives the sameresults as if I used ? ...

Results Not All There

629 byte By Montane at 2008-2-6
I just got this all setup and it is working but not right. Below are the test results I'm getting of the properties in parentheses.1 Responses (searchresponse.getlength(0))23 Results Found (sourceresponse.total)2 Actual Results Found (sourceresponse.results.getlength(0))So it says there are ...

MSN Search Web Service SDK Version 0.60 Now Available

2787 byte By JamesGordon at 2008-2-5
This SDK update includes code samples in VB and C# for Visual Studio 2003 and 2005, an updated online help file (CHM), and several new, important features. The new functionality available through the MSN Search Web Service includes:Support for all markets (CultureInfo) currently available ...

How to use Search Tags?

53 byte By mp2005 at 2008-2-5
Any more info about SearchTags? How to use them, etc?

Search results limit 50?

281 byte By Marco at 2008-2-4
I have noticed that I cannot get more than 50 results back. Is this a new limit?</P> I am using the SourceRequest.Count = 1000 and 9 come back. Any number up to 50 works but anything over 50 only brings in 9 records.</P> Am I doing something wrong?</P> Thanks.</P> </P>

How to change a CultureInfo and what effect on search it has!?

363 byte By Armink at 2008-2-4
I have few questions about the CutureInfo that needs to be given in SearchRequest.I have tried to put cultere "DE" and "HR" but I am always getting the same US results from the Web Service.What I need is to get search results like when I search with MSN Search website and put settings to search ...

MSN Search Web Service SDK Version 0.60 Now Available

2787 byte By JamesGordon at 2008-2-4
This SDK update includes code samples in VB and C# for Visual Studio 2003 and 2005, an updated online help file (CHM), and several new, important features. The new functionality available through the MSN Search Web Service includes:Support for all markets (CultureInfo) currently available ...

Getting more than 250 results

1065 byte By fmccown at 2008-2-4
When I use the MSN API to search for more than 250 results (50 at a time), I am continually given the last 50 results (200-249) over and over again.This error is easily duplicated. Just search for any common word like "test" and use offest=200 and count=50 (return 50 results, starting at result ...

Commerical Applications

203 byte By J-Man at 2008-2-3
The SDK license agreement states the SDK is for non commercial use. If I wanted to create a commerical application how would I get a commercial license from MS? </P> </P> Thanks,</P> Joshua</P>

1 result less...

147 byte By JeanFuertes at 2008-2-3
I have been receiving 1 result less than what I ask for... Am I doing something wrong? Is this a bug? Is there an official response to this issue?

App Id

364 byte By Lechal at 2008-2-2
Hi I'm trying to make an application using msn search api but I can't get my application id. I've read I should go to http://search.msn.com/developer but that page doesn't work. I also got a code example that had an id to test it in case you just want that, but it gave me an error. Any idea ...

Use msn api search with php

161 byte By Cached at 2008-2-2
Where i can find any script for use php with msn api ? I have registered my AppID and now i want do search can anyone post url for execute my query ?=? </span>

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