Hi, Just to address some of your questions/comments.
Re: "Google's AJAX API is useless for any significant search tasks because you are limited to 64 responses. This is not enough for even a basic retreival application." Most people (meaning this APIs target audience) would refine their search query before reaching 64 results (or can click the "more results" link provided with the API), this API is not intended for SEO, automated queries, high retrieval applications or "significant search tasks". Re: "What's more, there is no documentation of this limitation..." Not true, the link is here >> http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/documentation/reference.html#_property_GSearch "Note: The maximum number of results pages is based on the type of searcher. Local search supports 4 pages (or a maximum of 32 total results) and the other searchers (Blog, Book, Image, News, Patent, Video, and Web) support 8 pages (for a maximum total of 64 results)." Re: "Knowing now what I should have known when I researched this API, I would not have wasted my time." You should have maybe started with the Terms of use and probably would have found that your app is more then likely in violation of Googles terms. This API is not intended for SEO, automated queries, results harvesting etc as it target audience is users not abusers. I have developed many applications using Googles APIs and have not yet found this to be a limitation in any of them when using it as intended by Google. Hope that answers your questions and comments. Additionally, you are welcome to stop by the IRC channel for this API and can ask for clarification if things seem vague in the API Docs or your looking for additional information (or just post in this group if you prefer). Best regards, Vision Jinx On Apr 14, 10:06 pm, thestauffer <[email protected]> wrote: > Google's AJAX API is useless for any significant search tasks because > you are limited to 64 responses. This is not enough for even a basic > retreival application. What's more, there is no documentation of this > limitation or any information on if it will ever be possible to ease > this limitation. > > Knowing now what I should have known when I researched this API, I > would not have wasted my time. > > Chris --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
