You can vote for the filter toggle on the issue tracker. Just click on the star at the link below:
http://code.google.com/p/google-ajax-apis/issues/detail?id=207 Jeremy R. Geerdes Effective website design & development Des Moines, IA For more information or a project quote: http://jgeerdes.home.mchsi.com http://jgeerdes.blogspot.com http://jgeerdes.wordpress.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! And check out my blog, Adventures in Web Development, at http://jgeerdes.blogspot.com ! On Feb 27, 2009, at 10:56 AM, imoan wrote: > > http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/documentation > > I am trying to find a way to implement the 'filter' function that is > available in normal google.com search but does not seem to be > available via the ajax api. > > The underlying reason why I want this method exposed is because often > the reason the estimatedResultCount is so wildly off is due to the > REST interface returning results as if filter=1 ( i.e. omits some > entries that are very similar ) is set. > > This causes problems when the filter causes a very small subset to be > return ( say < 6 ) yet the following 8 pages ( 8 results per page = > total of 64 results ) return the same 6. Yet estimated count shows in > the hundreds. > > There seems no way via the api to handle this issue which is a bit > strange. > > I would like the option to view the duplicate / similar pages (i.e. > filter=0 ) or the API to tell me that there is no more unique results > in the remaining page sets ( unlikely yes but you can see why I ask ). > > Any ideas / directions / opinions are greatly appreciated. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
