Since there are discrepancies in the search results returned by the AJAX API's and manual search results, what would be an ideal way to track search ranks? Would measuring the search rank at multiple instances and taking an average help at all or the data would be still statistically insignificant, as we may not be able to hit all Google servers?
Does anyone know how many Google servers are there and what's the variance in search ranks/index across these servers? Thanks Kintan On Aug 19, 9:01 am, Jeremy Geerdes <[email protected]> wrote: > Actually, the API's estimatedResultCount is notoriously inaccurate and > varies wildly, even on different pages of the same result set. It's > actually a known issue. Check out the two related issues (and star > them!): > > http://code.google.com/p/google-ajax-apis/issues/detail?id=32http://code.google.com/p/google-ajax-apis/issues/detail?id=4 > > 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 Aug 19, 2009, at 10:50 AM, gaston wrote: > > > > > I would guess that results depend on which Google server serves your > > query. I'm doing some experiments and I've notice that the estimated > > number of results differs dramatically between queries posted to > > Google through the API and through the browser. > > > Again, my guess is that it depends on the indexes and which server you > > hit > > > Gaston > > > On Aug 4, 3:31 pm, Adam <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi > > >> I'm having an issue with Google AJAX API search results. There's a > >> page on my site that is not returned in my site search but is when > >> searching via google.com. > > >> If I search google for "site:audleytravel.com chiawa", the first > >> result (Chiawa Camp in The Lower Zambezi) is what I'm after. > > >> If I use the search api with the same request, the result is not > >> listed: > > >>http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/web? > >> v=1.0&q=site:audl... > > >> I believe the syntax is ok, as I'm getting lots of pages from my > >> domain that mention 'chiawa', just not that actual page. > > >> Any help appreciated! > > >> Cheers, Adam --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
