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I do not use screenscraping.  I use the c# WebBrowser class and I get the HTML after I use this class to navagate to a URL.  I was able to use yandex by using a "&p=" to navagate to a particular page.

The duckduckgo search engine does not work this way, though.

I have found out how to make a specialized query for YANDEX in a modified URL.  I will ask DUCKDUCKGO for advice.

https://duckduckgo.com/api.html does not provide a solution.

Running this, http://api.duckduckgo.com/?q=stuff+to+search&format=xml , in a browser's address bar does not provide anything as http://duckduckgo.com/?q=stuff+to+search does.

This shouldn't be rocket science.  I am able to see the HTML code.  Shouldn't there be some sort of AJAX tag in the HTML that I can find to make use of?

How do I get search engine results programatically?  Some search engines use AJAX to display content and so the URL does not change. This makes it difficult to get result content from a search engine programatically.

Most search engines do not use AJAX.  But two popular ones that I am interested in is YANDEX and DUCKDUCKGO.  Both of these search engines use AJAX to advance beyond the first page of results.  How do I find a way to programatically access these pages?

How do you programatically open a file in c# to append?

I tried searching online for an example and so far I have not found anything.

There is System.IO.StreamWriter and there is System.IO.StreamReader but there is no StreamAppend. Is there some way to use StreamWriter without overwritting the content of the existing file? Is there some way to use System.IO.Stream with some sort of appending criteria?

what a horrible thing.  It has nothing to do with Bing.

The company, if you click on "about these ads", shows a way to uninstall this.  Once I have uninstalled this, it no longer appears on search engine results pages.

Two things are suprising and odd.

1. This ad company assumes that some people will not mind and like these ads
2. It somehow jumped onto my computer without me having to agree to anything

What one man calls a virus, another calls "aggressive advertising innovation".  The ads are mainstream (I mean, WERE, mainstream) and what one might see on television.  In a world where people love commercials, they would be celebrated and embraced and this ad company would be award winning.  In my world, they were very annoying.

Since they were right there on the search engine results page, and since they seemed to exist on a bing page and not on other search engine pages, it was rational for me to assume that Microsoft had something to do with it.  Sorry about that.

it is relentless and non stop.  I don't know what is worse, political ads or the ads for mucus removers.

I think they are dealcabby.com ads but I am not sure.

Could it be I am being hacked by a plug in somehow?

Why did Microsoft Destroy Bing?

Bing now has video ads complete with sound.  And the sound cannot be turned off for all the ads, only individucal ones.  So a user cannot listen to Pandora while doing a search with Bing unless he does not mind having his favorate songs being interupted.

Who had the idea that it was OK to have video ads on Bing?  No one is going to tolerate this annoyance.

I saw a tutorial on some other web site that offers example code.

It was incomplete but I used my powers of reasoning to figure out what was to fill into the blanks.  It had a .edmx file which provided a diagram of the database.  Through poking around on what new classes provided a .edmx file, I found a class to use.  The rest was easy, I just right clicked on the diagram of the database and followed the steps.

I think it has something to do with POCO.  Does anyone know about POCO?

nugget ran and said everything is up-to-date, but I still have this issue.  Please advise.