This is a known bug in the estimatedResultCount property. Quite frankly, estimatedResultCount is generally wildly inaccurate and should not be depended on for mission-critical applications.
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 Nov 23, 2009, at 5:43 AM, vrgoogler wrote: > Does the Google AJAX API support "phrase matching"? > > When I wrap double quotes around my keyword, I get a different > "estimatedResultCount" than the one I see right from Google.com search > pages. > > I am doing this in PHP... > > For example: > > http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q="paris+hilton"&gl=us > > I see: Results 1 - 10 of about 38,700,000 for "paris hilton" > > For Google AJAX API: > > $keyword = '"paris hilton"'; > $keyword = urlencode($keyword); > > http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/web?v=1.0&rsz=large&safe=moderate&filter=1&hl=en&gl=us&q=$keyword&start=0 > > [estimatedResultCount] => 4,990,000 > > > ================== > > The result count is off by over 30 million. Any idea why? > > -- > > 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= > . > > -- 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=.
