Absolutely. As I said, the issue is wildly inconsistent, and when it's off, it's off by a lot. I do not know the details of the problem, but I do know that the API dev team is aware of it; they track issues in the Issue Tracker just like the rest of us! That said, I also know that they pay attention to issues that are starred as important. As I believe this one is very important (i.e., I've starred the two related issues myself), I would recommend that everyone do the same.
Jeremy R. Geerdes Effective website design & development Des Moines, IA For more information or a project quote: http://jgeerdes.home.mchsi.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unless otherwise noted, any price quotes contained within this communication are given in US dollars. If you're in the Des Moines, IA, area, check out Debra Heights Wesleyan Church! On Oct 19, 2008, at 4:38 PM, Tiger wrote: > > Obviously it's just an estimate so a relatively minor variation from > 273M to 272M is perfectly reasonable and expected. But the issue is > that the API sometimes gives vastly different results from the web > search (sometimes by a factor of 10 or more) and in this case of sarah > vs. "sarah" the results are not even consistent within the API. > > On Oct 19, 2:31 pm, Jeremy Geerdes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Well, as I mentioned before, there is a known bug with the >> estimatedResultCount returned from the API such that it can be wildly >> inconsistent and inaccurate. That said, the estimated result tally >> for Google itself does vary, from 273 million for sarah to 272 >> million >> for "sarah". >> >> Jeremy R. Geerdes >> Effective website design & development >> Des Moines, IA >> >> For more information or a project quote:http:// >> jgeerdes.home.mchsi.com >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> Unless otherwise noted, any price quotes contained within this >> communication are given in US dollars. >> >> If you're in the Des Moines, IA, area, check out Debra Heights >> Wesleyan Church! >> >> On Oct 19, 2008, at 4:17 PM, Stealth wrote: >> >> >> >>> Here's an example using purely the API: >> >>> http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/web?v=1.0&q=sarah >>> gives 275M results >>> http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/web?v=1.0&q="sarah"; >>> gives about 36M results >> >>> But perhaps tomorrow they may return the same estimatedResultCount. >> >>> You can also do this comparing the API to the Google website. Using >>> the API will return a different number than the site. >> >>> On Oct 19, 1:33 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>>> Can you please provide us w/a link? >> >>>> On 10/19/2008, Stealth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>>>> No, there is no error message. The results are sometimes >>>>> different >>>>> using the API rather than using Google itself, but there is >>>>> never an >>>>> error. >> >>>>> On Oct 18, 7:18 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>>>>> Do you have an error message that I can run? >> >>>> -- >>>> Xavier A. Mathews >>>> Student/Developer/Web-Master >>>> GG Client Based Tech Support Specialist >>>> Hazel Crest Illinois >>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>> "Fear of a name, only increases fear of the thing itself." >> >> > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
