On Apr 10, 5:18 pm, Marnen Laibow-Koser <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a quick question as I try to build an application using Google > AJAX Local Search. In order to associate my own data with each search > result, I'm trying to find or derive a unique ID for each search > result. [...] > Does > anyone know if this URL (or any other GlocalResult data) will in fact > work as a unique identifier?
I just experimented a bit more. Some findings: * The .url property itself contains "&q=search+string", so it is not a reliable unique ID for a business, as the same business may be found with different search strings. * The latlng URL parameter, however, contains a third value (besides the latitude and longitude) that appears to be a unique ID: when I change it, and leave the remainder of the URL intact, I can no longer see the detail page. However, when I change the latitude and longitude, and leave the third component intact, the detail page still displays. So it looks like latlng in the detail URL is in the form "<latitude> %2C<longitude>%2C<unique_id>". Can anyone confirm this or suggest a better way of deriving a unique ID? > > Thanks, > -- > Marnen Laibow-Koser > [email protected] > http://www.marnen.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
