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Universal BOSS API Arguments: Apply to Web, Images and News

start

Ordinal position of first result. First position is 0. Default sets start to 0.

count

Total number of results to return. Maximum value is 50. Default sets count to 10.

lang

Specifies the language search product to query. See “Supported Regions and Languages for Web and News Search”. Default sets lang to "en". Must be used in parallel with region. Other language results may appear in results. For strict filtering use the stringlang parameter described below.

region

Specifies which regional (country) search product to query. See “Supported Regions and Languages for Web and News Search”. Default sets region to "us". Must be used in parallel with lang.
strictlang Default is 0. (no strictness enforced) Setting strictlang=1 activates the strict language filtering based on the lang parameter defined in the query.

format

The data format of the response. Value can be set to either "xml" or "json". Default sets format to "json".

callback

The name of the callback function to wrap the result. Parameter is valid only if format is set to "json". No default value exists.
sites Restrict BOSS search results to a set of pre-defined sites. Multiple sites must be comma separated. Example: (sites=abc.com,cnn.com). The Images service does not yet support multiple sites. Note: This argument can use a single site parameter.
view Retrieve additional search data provided by the respective BOSS service. Please see individual chapters to see what view options are available.
style By default for web search result titles and abstracts contain <b> and </b> html tags around the search term. Use style=raw to remove the bold tags around the search terms in titles and abstracts.