Even if carrot2.org is using the Google AJAX Search API (i.e., I am 99.99% certain they are not), they are doing so in violation of the TOS. The AJAX Search API may certainly be used on commercial sites in general, as I noted in my response to your post yesterday, and it does not have a query rate limit as did the old SOAP Search API. However, the TOS prohibit displaying results from the Google API with results from other search engines. Additionally, you are not allowed to rearrange results returned from the API. Also, the AJAX Search API will only return up to 64 results. carrot2.org's site clearly violates the first two provisions and, without having counted individual results, I would guess the last as well. Therefore, if they are using a Google API, I would conclude it is not a public one; they may have an individual agreement set up with Google. I suspect, though, that they are utilizing "screen scraping" applications, which are forbidden in Google's general TOS (http://www.google.com/accounts/TOS - see section 5.3).
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 Mar 10, 2010, at 8:00 AM, David Johnson wrote: > Hi > I am going to create meta search engine so i want to consume google > search api for this purpose. I have read from google site that search > api is not commercially available but > I have seen many meta search engine's like > http://search.carrot2.org/stable/search, > http://clusty.com/ etc. all of these are using google search api and > there is no limitation of 1000 query's. so this indicate that google > api is available without query limit. > > Please anybody can tell me how can i get these search api. I am also > ready to pay for this service. > > -- > 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.
