Hi soma56, welcome to TalkPHP.

Yes, it looks like you're thinking along the right lines if you do want to avoid them blocking of those pages. However, there might be other routes that you can use. Note that Yahoo! has a bunch of special services (e.g. BOSS) designed for being accessed by scripts, providing programmatic access to things like the search results that you're wanting; this would likely avoid the need for proxies entirely.