querying se's and dir's

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id like to be able to query a search engine and return a variable that tells me the position of a query.

eg

this could tells me whether it exists, but id like to push it a little further and to tell me where exactly.

<?
$query = $words;
$pattern = $domain;
$url="http://www.google.com/search?q=$query";

if(!($fp=fopen($url, "r")))
{
    exit;
}
$contents = fread($fp, 1000000);
fclose($fp);
 $contents = eregi($pattern, $contents, $result);

if($result){

echo"$result[0]";

}
else{
echo"not found";

}
?>

2 things

1. Why wont it work with google (works when i query yahoo http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=$query )

2. can anyone help me determine the position of the queried term

tia

for any help

[Angus]

Google does something to protect its pages somehow.

I wrote a script that tries to detect how popular a site is using expired domains and how many Google links to it...

Could never get google to work, so did it with Yahoo.