I hate to bump this, but it would be nice to have some response...
On Apr 5, 3:46 pm, Marnen Laibow-Koser <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, Googlefolx (and others)!
>
> I'm building an application that's a bit like Yelp. Basically, users
> should have the capability to find businesses through Google Local
> Search and write reviews about them. I have figured out how to do the
> technical side of this, but I want to make sure I don't break Google's
> TOS, so I have a few questions.
>
> By the way, the TOS I am referring to is the copy at
> http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/terms.html. If that's not the
> correct one for the Google AJAX Local Search, please let me know.
>
> Now on to the questions.
>
> 1. I would like to display my Google search results along with links
> to pages in my application that provide more detail about the
> businesses retrieved in the search. However, I don't want to break
> the prohibition on intermixing other content in §1.3(a)(iii) of the
> TOS. At the moment, I have a two-column table that presents my links
> next to each Google search result while clearly separating the two
> visually -- sort of like this for each result:
>
> +------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
> | Joe's Pizzeria | 2 reviews by MyApplication users. |
> | 123 Main Street | Average rating 3/5. |
> | [link to Google detail page] | Click here to write a review! |
> +------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
> | [and so on...] | [and so on...] |
>
> I believe that this is within the spirit of the TOS, but it's not
> great UI design. Could I simply have
>
> Joe's Pizzeria
> 123 Main Street
> [link to Google detail page]
> 2 reviews by MyApplication users -- click here to write a review!
>
> [and so on...]
>
> or would that be considered too much intermixing?
>
> 2. Ideally, I hope to eventually offer my users a way to add
> businesses to the DB that are not listed on Google -- and it would be
> nice if they could come up in the searches at the same time as Google
> results (of course, I'd label the ones from my DB as non-Google
> results). In fact, there was a post this past Friday on the Google
> Ajax APIs Blog
> (http://googleajaxsearchapi.blogspot.com/2009/04/making-content-creati...
> ) that describes nextstop.com doing exactly this. So far so good.
> Yet the TOS, in §1.3(a)(ii), specifically prohibits "intermixing
> Search Results from sources other than Google".
>
> Now, given the post on Google's own blog, I assume Google does not
> consider nextstop.com to be breaking the TOS. But before I implement
> similar functionality, I want to be sure that I'm not crossing the
> line here. I would really appreciate some clarification.
>
> I know this has been a long post, but I'm just not finding the answers
> I need in your TOS or elsewhere on your website. Please help me out
> here. Thanks!
>
> Best,
> --MarnenLaibow-Koser
> [email protected]http://www.marnen.org
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