I have a list of about 10000 names, and I want to determine in an automatic way their "importance". A sufficient metric for me would be the number of results of each name in Google.
Is there an easy way to get that number? I can see that by subscribing to the Custom Search API I only have a free quota of 100 searches per day. It will take me 100 days to get my results!
Is there some easy way to do this?
Thanks!
Note: My language of preference is Java.
It looks like the Bing API will let you do 7 queries/sec, so just half an hour.
(Documented here on the last page under the heading "What you must do")