Hi Jeff, thank you so much for your reply. Too bad I am back to square one.
Any lawyer specialized in Google API TOS here? You might have found a customer... Kind Regards, Matteo On 20 Ago, 01:30, "Jeff S (Google)" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Matteo, > > I'm sorry that we didn't get back to you on earlier threads. For TOS > related questions, I think that the person you want to talk to > actually would be legal counsel. We're happy to help with any code > related questions though :) > > (Also it looks like your other questions earlier were terms related as > well so I should have mentioned this back then. Apologies.) > > Cheers, > > Jeff > > On Aug 19, 7:50 am, matteoc <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I have posted this question in April without any reply either from the > > group nor from Google. Please do respond to the following! > > > I would like to develop a web application that works in the following > > way: > > > The user finds links to multiple resources. The link is not actually > > stored in the site, but is built by dinamically querying Google for a > > specific set of terms. > > By clicking the link a query is passed to the Search API and the first > > result found is then used to redirect the user. > > > For example the page features the following: > > Find Item 1 on Site X > > Find Item 2 on Site Y > > Find Item 3 on Site Z > > > Each link triggers a different query that is associated with it. > > Once the api feeds the results the first result of the set is used to > > redirect the user to specified page. > > > My worries are the following: > > 1) Search Results manipulation is prohibited by the TOS at chapter 1.4 > > (b). In this case the results are not manipulated nor obscured but in > > fact hidden from the user. > > 2) The users does not explicitly press a "SEARCH" button nor does he > > manually input the search terms. It is unclear if this is a > > requirement in the TOS or not. > > 3) The query's will be very similar to one another and this may > > trigger the "automated querys" block. > > > I would be grateful if you could share your opinion on this or direct > > me to the correct person able to respond to these questions. > > > Kindest Regards, > > Matteo -- 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.
