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Hi friend!
I know this qn shouldn't be asked here.but i cant find anyplace in this forum.So please help me.
Can i use the list of google and alexa rankings for my own website's use??
I want use that effectively so that i can successfully finish my project.
Please help me.
Thank you.

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This thread from asked whether Google/Alexa ranks can be reused for a site “top 100.” Important context that changed since 2012: Alexa.com was retired (service shut down May 1, 2022), Google’s public PageRank numbers were turned off for the toolbar in 2016, and Google’s terms disallow automated querying of its search service without permission. These are the facts that determine what is possible and lawful today. (bleepingcomputer.com)

Practical, repeatable options that comply with terms and avoid fragile scraping: use licensed programmatic feeds (for example Google’s Custom Search JSON API for programmable search results), commercial traffic/rank APIs (SimilarWeb, etc.), or reproducible research lists such as Tranco for a stable “top sites” baseline. For full control, use open crawl data (Common Crawl) plus backlink sources to compute a custom ranking. Each choice trades off cost, freshness, and legal/licensing constraints. See the official Google API docs and Tranco project for examples. (developers.google.com)

Implementation notes and cautions designers often miss: pick the signals to combine (traffic estimate, backlink authority, topical relevance), normalize them to a single score, store the source and timestamp, cache results to limit API usage, and display the data source and date alongside any ranking. Verify API terms for redistribution or display rules and respect rate limits and attribution requirements. For building your own index, Common Crawl provides large-scale raw crawl data but requires substantial processing and careful handling of robots/usage constraints. (commoncrawl.org)

Summary recommendation tied to forum replies: and were right to point toward official channels; ’s note about aggregators is also practical. For a reliable top-100 today, pick a licensed provider (DigitalRank/SimilarWeb) or a reproducible list (Tranco), or build a custom score from open datasets—avoid scraping Google or defunct Alexa feeds.

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Member Avatar for elbeato

A little hard to follow. Are you asking whether you can post your own Alexa and Pagerank numbers on your site? If so, the answer is yes. If you're looking to actually generate more complex data from their services, you'd need to look into what's available through their APIs.

Member Avatar for Dani

Do you mean you want to scrape their content? Check out what's available through their APIs, as elbeato said.

Member Avatar for jiksaw213

dont know what exactly what you are asking, do you mean use the backlink list of other website extracted by google and alexa?

Member Avatar for idiotguy

Acutally im asking the following:
i wanna use their ranking of everysite for my site's top 100 listing.
can i use that?
will it hurt me in any ways?
thank you.

Member Avatar for Dani

Well, it would be considered duplicate content if you are just scraping Alexa.

Member Avatar for jamesr12

Still not getting what you are trying to ask but i will suggest get quality backlinks to your site this will defenitely help your site and your site's ranking

Member Avatar for idiotguy

I wanna use that for best results for my search engine.
So can i use those rankings for my site's benefit???
I think i said it as crystal clear.

Member Avatar for Dani

So you want to copy another site's content for your own search engine? Why not create a Google custom search engine, and fine tune it for your needs?

Member Avatar for OliviaSSLGuru

Hello,

it's really little bit hard to get your exactly that are you asking for Google and alexa rankings use within your web site? Please be specific with your thread then only might you have proper solution from here. Wish you good luck.

Member Avatar for LaxLoafer

I wanna use that for best results for my search engine.

Do you mean, like Bing? http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/microsofts-bing-uses-google-search.html :-)

Seriously though, search aggregators are nothing new. DuckDuckGo and others have been scraping / improving search rankings for some considerable time and apparently able to do this.

But for a definitive answer, I'd suggest checking Google's Terms and Conditions.

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