I halt all the experiments until I can read carefully the TOS :-(
On Sep 2, 7:07 pm, Jeremy Geerdes <[email protected]> wrote:
> And I just noticed this, and thought I'd give you a heads up. The
> Google AJAX APIs TOS prohibit the use of appliations which make
> automated queries to the API. I don't know how you're doing your 1000
> queries twice daily, but I wouldn't want you to get busted on that
> clause.
>
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> On Sep 2, 2009, at 10:22 AM, gaston wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hello,
>
> > I'm building an application to do the same kind of experiments.
> > Running multiple queries, each for a different search term. I'm using
> > Yahoo's API and Google's. So far I have no problem, running about 1000
> > queries twice a day and using the estimatedResultCount. I understand
> > that this is very inaccurate.
>
> > @Jeremy: you said: "Unfortunately, it is known to be highly
> > inconsistent and wildly inaccurate."
>
> > Do you know where I can find an "offical" statement about this claim?
> > The reason I ask you this is because I could use that information to
> > better explain my experimental results. From my initial experiments I
> > can see that the google count is rather different from the number of
> > results I would obtain if I query Google through the Web interface but
> > I want to be sure that this is indeed due to restrictions on the
> > Google API. After all, there are many factors that affect this number,
> > e.g. the Google server that serves the query.
>
> > The only problem I'm experiencing at the moment and so far I don't
> > know how to solve, is that I can't manage to escape/encode the query
> > part of the URI correctly, specially when I want to query terms that
> > have special characters like german characters for exmaple. I built
> > the application in Java and I've tried with URLEncode but it doesn't
> > work the way I want. Do you know which functions I can use in order to
> > escape the query part so I can build a correct URI to sent to Google
> > through the search API?
>
> > thanks,
> > G.
>
> > On Aug 29, 6:54 pm, mjc147 <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> I'm not too bothered about the accuracy (within reason of course)
> >> but,
> >> granted, the TOS could be a problem.
>
> >> I would actually rather code the client in Java but couldn't find an
> >> appropriate Google Search API - is there one?
>
> >> On Aug 28, 7:10 pm, Jeremy Geerdes <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >>> There are a couple of problems with your task as far as the Google
> >>> AJAX Search API is concerned. First, the closest thing to a result
> >>> count that the API offers is the cursor.estimatedResultCount
> >>> property.
> >>> Unfortunately, it is known to be highly inconsistent and wildly
> >>> inaccurate. It is generally a good idea NOT to rely on it for
> >>> mission-
> >>> critical functionality. And second, the API's TOS explicitly forbid
> >>> the use of applications which submit automated queries. In other
> >>> words, you would have to write your application in such a way that
> >>> you
> >>> would have some sort of user interaction before each of your queries
> >>> was run. For a set of several thousand, that would probably be a
> >>> problem.
>
> >>> I would suggest that you use a different search API (e.g., Bing or
> >>> Yahoo!), but I know that at least Yahoo has a similar restriction on
> >>> automated queries. And frankly, I can't imagine that Bing wouldn't
> >>> as
> >>> well.
>
> >>> Jeremy R. Geerdes
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> >>> On Aug 28, 2009, at 1:41 AM, mjc147 wrote:
>
> >>>> I want to run several thousand search queries for the sole
> >>>> purpose to
> >>>> find out the number of results for each search. The actual search
> >>>> results are of no interest to me.
>
> >>>> What is the best way to do this?
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