Yea, I'm not sure what's going on with those types of sites. There are many of them out there. I agree, it seems as though they are violating the TOU, or have reached some sort of agreement with Google, which seems a bit counter to Google's ad-based business model.
On Sep 19, 7:52 pm, "jgeerdes [AJAX APIs \"Guru\"]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's tough to say what's going on with sites like viewzi.com because a > lot of them hide their search functionality server-side or in compiled > Flash applications, etc. That said, there are a couple of options out > there that they could be utilizing to access Google search results. > The first one, of course, is the AJAX Search API. It must be noted, > however, that, if this is the case, they are violating the API's terms > of use by mixing results from Google with other sources (e.g., > Yahoo!). Alternatively, if they obtained a key before it was > deprecated in December 2006, they could be utilizing the SOAP Search > API, which returned up to 1,000 results but had a rather stringent > rate limit. Beyond that, they could be screen scraping (which would > be against Google's general TOU) to take the results directly from > Google's web interface, or they may have formed some other agreement. > > Jeremy R. Geerdes > Effective website design & development > Des Moines, IA > > For more information or a project quote:http://jgeerdes.home.mchsi.com > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > If you're in the Des Moines, IA, area, check out Debra Heights > Wesleyan Church! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google AJAX API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-AJAX-Search-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
