I don't work for Google, but I think that their TOU - for both the AJAX API and the general web interface - are pretty clear on this. They explicitly forbid using automated means to submit search queries and/or crawl their stuff. This would seem to imply to me that they are watching for this kind of behavior, employing some means to deter it, and taking it rather seriously if and when they see someone committing violations at some level.
In fact, none of the three big search engines - Google, Yahoo!, MSN/ Live Search - allow the use of their APIs in automated SEO applications. Yahoo! and MSN only allow up to 1,000 search results per query, and the only search service that I've found that comes close - if you can call it that - to a SEO offering is the Alexa Web Search service, available through Amazon. But even there, they only allow up to one million results, and you have to pay on a per-query basis. 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 24, 2008, at 10:42 PM, Sébastien Brodeur wrote: > > 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. 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