>From the brief description you have provided, you will run into two major >problems. The first is technical: the estimatedResultCount is generally wildly >inaccurate and highly inconsistent when compared to the "approximately x >results" displayed on a Google search page.
And the second, larger problem, is legal: the TOS for both the API and google.com prohibit the use of robots, spiders, or other applications which make automated queries against the services. This means that you can't set up a simple cron job to run your daily queries, but you'll have to have someone sitting there, manually triggering the queries. 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 Jul 9, 2010, at 7:50 AM, James S wrote: > Hi > > We are currently investigating the possibility of writing an > application to monitor the activity of our clients and their > competitors in which we are hoping to use the estimatedResultCount > value from the Ajax Search API. I would like to know if it is possible > under the licensing terms of the API service to configure an > application to use the Ajax Search API to retrieve > estimatedResultCount data on certain specific websites on a daily > basis and then store this for analysis at a later date? We would like > to review the data across time to identify trends, so would therefore > need to store the data in an internal database. > > We would like to carry out 1 api call per client/competitor per day. > We would likely have around 100 clients/competitors in the > application, so 100 calls a day is not going to stretch the API, but I > just want to make sure we are on the right side of the law! > > Many thanks in advance > > James > > -- > 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.
