The AJAX Search API supports most of the search operators which Google supports via its regular interface. It does not necessarily support those available via the advanced search form, however. So you should be able to do most of what you're wanting to do. And you can definitely put multiple search controls on a single page. Just read the documentation, and you should be able to figure it out.
That said, what you're talking about sounds remarkably like a SEO application, which the API was definitely not designed for. As long as you're manually running the searches by visiting the page in a browser, you should be okay as far as the TOS go (assuming you're not doing anything else that would violate the terms), but you may find that the 64-result limit is too restrictive to be useful. Just a heads up :) Jeremy R. Geerdes Effective website design & development Des Moines, IA For more information or a project quote: http://jgeerdes.home.mchsi.com http://jgeerdes.blogspot.com http://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, at http://jgeerdes.blogspot.com ! On Oct 29, 2009, at 12:48 PM, mainedot wrote: > > A few questions: > > Can the ajax search api's initial search - searchControl.execute > ("search term"); > perform a complex query on a number of search terms, phrases, term > exclusions? > > examples: > has to have all word in a phrase: "maine transportation" has to have > both words not just "maine" or "transportation" > "mainedot" - must be complete word - not just "maine" or "dot" - we > don't want results with poka"dot" etc. > > something like: > search term: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act > Searching for American Recovery and Reinvestment Act .NEAR. "Maine > OR "Maine .NEAR. ["ARRA"] > > We have a set of search terms/phrases that we are interested in and i > would like these terms/phrases to be performed on initial page load so > we don't have to manually type in multiple searches to get the > results. > > How far can the search be refined, if at all? > > Can there be multiple searchControls on one page to search for each > initial keyword term defined if one searchControl cannot do it? > > Can the search be filtered by dates? We would like to run this search > daily and would like results that are current not from many days ago. > > Thanks so much for any assistance. :) > Trish > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
