I voted. Is there a workaround for this in the meantime? I keep thinking I should be able to use &filter=0 somehow somewhere, but have had no luck yet.
On Feb 27, 10:37 am, Jeremy Geerdes <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.comhttp://jgeerdes.blogspot.comhttp://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, > athttp://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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
