need access to a search engine's database

obviously, i think its overkill for me to run a spider that will crawl the internet autonomously like go开发者_Go百科ogle or yahoos.

so i am wondering, if there is some way i can access a major search engine's database, instead of scraping them ?

Google and Yahoo both have APIs:

http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/
http://developer.yahoo.com/search/

But like everybody else said, we need more info about what you're trying to do to help you.

Other than doing regular searches, no.

What are you trying to do?

Nope. You're already violating terms of use policy by scraping them. That kind of information is carefully guarded for obvious reasons.