Hello Ben,, Don't you fear people would use some kind of crawler to do the job instead (and by doing so, add more load to the web server?)
On Oct 20, 1:47 pm, "Ben Lisbakken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey Vicky -- > Unfortunately, our API was not designed with this in mind as a use case. We > want to discourage users from using the API as a Search Engine Optimization > (SEO) tool. > > Regards, > Ben > > On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 7:00 PM, Jeremy Geerdes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Well, unfortunately, I don't know the answer to your question. > > However, I did run a search on google.com for "eco carpet cleaning" - > > both with and without quotes - and did not see the results that you're > > seeing. In particular, my results were as follows: > > > Google > > - without quotation marks: sunsetcarpetcleaning.net at #11 > > - with quotation marks: not in the first 30 > > > AJAX Search API > > - without quotation marks: sunsetcarpetcleaning.net at #11 > > - with quotation marks: not in the first 30 > > > That said, Google's search rankings are far from static. You may be > > 13 one minute, 11 the next, and off the chart just a few days later. > > So your mileage may vary dramatically! > > > 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 17, 2008, at 7:23 PM, vicky wrote: > > > > Hello Jeremy, > > > > I am making a tool for getting a position of website on > > > particular website on google.com. > > > > For this i am using google search api.But it gives me > > > different results as compared to google.com on particular website. > > > > For example i entered keyword 'eco carpet cleaning' in > > > google.com it gives me 20th position for sunsetcarpetcleaning.net.Same > > > search applied on search api it gives me position 13th.Do not know > > > why. > > > > Waiting for your suggestions.My email id is > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Thanks > > > > On Oct 16, 4:24 pm, Jeremy Geerdes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> If you're comparing the results that you get via the API to the > > >> results you get on your localized version of Google - in the case of > > >> Venezuela, google.co.ve - you will always have that dramatic > > >> difference. The API is not yet able to pull results from the > > >> localized indexes, so no matter what you do, you are still pulling > > >> data from thewww.google.comindex. The good news, though, is that > > >> you can vote for the functionality by starring it in the issue > > >> tracker: > > > >>http://code.google.com/p/google-ajax-apis/issues/detail?id=78 > > > >> 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 15, 2008, at 10:49 PM, Billy wrote: > > > >>> I'm using the non-javascript websearch ajax api in php (using the > > >>> example provided). > > > >>> Everything works fine, except that the results I get are completely > > >>> different from the ones I get when I search directly on Google. > > > >>> I've tried changing the hl, lr and cr parameters (I'm in Venezuela, > > >>> using spanish), but I still get completely different set of results. > > > >>> Any suggestion? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google AJAX APIs" 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
