Please also take a look at the sections of the Terms of Use dealing with displaying results to the end user.
Cheers, Adam On Feb 16, 3:31 am, Jeremy Geerdes <[email protected]> wrote: > To Vision Jinx's excellent reply, I would add a couple of thoughts. First, if > the searches are triggered when a student submits the document or the teacher > hits a button, rather than on a cron job, etc., I suspect you would be okay. > The default SearchControl which Google built for use with the API can be set > up to run multiple searches simultaneously, but as long as there is some form > of user interaction (e.g., the user visits the page or submits the search > query), it falls within the terms of service. And second, I do believe that, > in the past, Google has worked with people developing such systems. I do not > know what the terms of those previous arrangements has been, but it may be > worth checking out. I will contact a couple of people at Google to draw their > attention to this thread. > > All of that said, as Vision Jinx noted of himself, I am not a legal expert, > either. If you have any doubts about any of this, I would strongly recommend > consulting someone who is. > > 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 16, 2010, at 4:50 AM, Vision Jinx wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > First off, I am not a lawyer and I don't play one on TV so I would > > always suggest that you seek professional legal council. > > > With that being said, I do believe the APIs can not be used in an > > automated fashion and would need to be the result of an end user, > > meaning you can't use automated scripts to make the queries. > > > But again, please read over the terms of use and see if any of them > > apply to you, if there is any grey area that your not sure about this > > is where I would most definitely ask a lawyer. > > > Additionally, there are quite a few plagiarism services on the > > Internet that I have seen, you can maybe also check some of them out > > if looking for an alternative. (Not meaning they plagiarize, but scan > > the Internet for plagiarism) > > > Cheers! > > Vision Jinx > > > On Feb 16, 3:26 am, Dmitry Shevchenko <[email protected]> > > wrote: > >> Greetings, I am a researcher from Russia, and I am working on > >> improving MOODLE - a well known educational system -http://moodle.org. One > >> of the major problems we are dealing with is > >> plagiarism - students often copy works from Internet. There is a > >> special module, CROT > >> (http://www.siberiasoft.info/index.php/features.html), developed for > >> MOODLE by Sergey Butakov, that allows to perform both local and global > >> searches. However, it uses for global search MSN. We modified the CROT > >> code in order to use Google instead of MSN. We used as a base the code > >> in the samples for PHP > >> -http://code.google.com/intl/ru-RU/apis/ajaxsearch/documentation/. > >> Everything works fine. > >> Here is the algorithm that we use (without too much details): > >> 1. Split the document into separate parts of fixed size. > >> 2. For each part find the links and store them in a hash table. > >> 3. Download the pages for the most popular links. > >> 4. Compare it with the original document and calculate the measure of > >> similarity (scientific part). > >> 5. If the computed value is above specified threshold, report it to > >> the teacher on a special status page (see the screenshot 1). > >> The teacher can then look at the downloaded documents to compare them > >> (see the screenshot 2). > >> Everything works fine from the technical point of view. However, we're > >> not sure about terms of usage. Is it legal to use google search > >> service in such a way? We can place Google logo on the pages involved > >> in this process, that global search is supported by Google ajax api > >> (instead of bing service, as on screenshot 1). If not, what exactly do > >> we need to change (or, if it's completely impossible, we will disable > >> this new feature on our site). > >> With respect, > >> Shevchenko Dmitry. > > >> Screenshot1.JPG > >> 60KViewDownload > > >> Screenshot2.JPG > >> 147KViewDownload > > > -- > > 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 > > athttp://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.
