Thanks Jeremy, I thought that may be the case, but thought it was worth checking! Back to the drawing board then!
Thanks again. James On Jul 9, 2:19 pm, Jeremy Geerdes <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > 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.
