Well, whether or not your application will conform to the terms of use will depend on how you implement it. For instance, if you have a person who flips over to that application every 30 mins and runs the search manually, you'll be just fine. However, if you build the app and then set it up as a cron job so that it is automatically executed every 30 mins with no human interaction whatsoever, you will be in violation because such automated applications are prohibited in the TOS.
Jeremy R. Geerdes Effective website design & development Des Moines, IA For more information or a project quote: http://jgeerdes.home.mchsi.com [email protected] If you're in the Des Moines, IA, area, check out Debra Heights Wesleyan Church! On Feb 12, 2010, at 11:53 AM, Guillermo wrote: > Hi! > > I was reading the technical documentation for the Google AJAX API for > the Non-Javascript Environments. (http://code.google.com/apis/ > ajaxsearch/documentation/reference.html#_intro_fonje) and this are the > questions I have, since I think what I'm needing to do maybe falls in > a grey area of the terms. > > I'm developing a web application for a client of mine (a public figure > in our country) where we'll monitor the mentions of this person on > social sites (Twitter, Facebook, etc) and we'll also like to use this > Google API to monitor his mentions on Google search results (such as > News and Blogs). We'll have a set of keywords (his name basically) and > probably will be querying for news results happening every 30 minutes > or so. > > - Is that under the allowed features that that this API can be used > to? > - Would developing something like that get me banned from using the > service? > - If it falls under the unauthorized use, what other options do I have > to create something like that? > - Maybe does Google offers this service for clients that would need > these kind of features as a paid service? > > Comments and suggestions would be greatly appreciated.... > > Thanks! > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
