PhpSERA is a PHP search engine project which primarily aims to creat a free tool for analyzing search engine ranking for websites. PhpSERA is a PHP/MySQL-based tool for Search Engine Ranking Analysis (SERA). The rankings are based on parsing output of search engines, using simple regular expressions.

PhpSERA connects to the search engines, parses the result pages and displays a ranking report. Parsing is done by stripping the header and footer of result pages using quick'n'dirty regular expressions (frequently updated and available from this website). Finally, the result list is split using a given separator and a ranking (or error code) is returned.

The Advantages of PhpSERA are:
-phpSERA is free, open source, and you may do with it whatever you want (under GNU GPL, that is)
-phpSERA operates serverside, and therefore won't consume as much bandwidth at the client
-phpSERA has a high potential, depending on the quality of the released code and frequency of updated search engine patterns (possibly contributed by you?)