Is Google returning the SOAP Search API to search the general Web?
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On Mar 8, 2011, at 7:53 AM, Jeremy Geerdes wrote:
On the internet now, you can find documentation for three DIFFERENT
Google search APIs. The first API that they released used an
approach called SOAP which returned results in an XML format. This
is what the documentation you were seeing at http://code.google.com/apis/soapsearch/api_
faq.html#gen12 is referring to. The SOAP Search API would return up
to 1,000 results for a search term, but it also had a limit of 1,000
queries per day, but it was discontinued in 2008 or 2009.
The second rendition of a Google search API was originally called
the AJAX Search API. It did not have a hard limit on the number of
requests you could send per day, but it was throttled and restricted
in other ways to discourage SEO applications from using the service
(e.g., it would only return up to 64 results for a normal query, 100
for Custom Search Engine query). This is what you were seeing
demonstrated at http://code.google.com/apis/ajax/playground/#the_hello_world_of_general_search
. This API has been expanded for use beyond AJAX, so it became
called simply the WebSearch API, and you can find documentation at http://code.google.com/apis/websearch/docs/
. You will notice at the top of that page, though, that this API
has been deprecated since November 2010. This means that, while it
still works and Google will still maintain it, it is scheduled for
shutdown no later than November 2013.
The WebSearch API is being succeeded by the Custom Search API, which
is really designed to interface a Google Custom Search Engine (see http://www.google.com/cse
for more information) rather than simply search the general web.
There are advantages and disadvantages to this API. Two big
advantages are that it will return up to 100 results, and those
results will generally be pretty good because CSE's are designed to
be "curated" - that is, you set it up, pick the sites you want to
search, and so you don't get a lot of garbage results. But there are
also a couple of big disadvantages to it. For instance, the CS API
will not search the general web; it must be coupled with a CSE,
effectively rendering it useless for SEO applications and general
search functionality. And the big disadvantage is that it is
actually limited to only 100 requests per day. You can request more
quota than that via the APIs Console, but the criteria on which the
increased quota is granted - and the timeframe in which it will be
processed - are absolutely unclear. You can sign up for the CS API
and find the documentation for it and a number of other Google APIs
in the API Console at http://code.google.com/apis/console
Hope this helps clear things up a bit.
Jeremy R. Geerdes
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On Mar 8, 2011, at 4:28 AM, yomoore wrote:
Hi,
I have a qeustion. I want to use the ''web search'' from:
http://code.google.com/apis/ajax/playground/#the_hello_world_of_general_search
I have read somewhere that I'm only allowed 1000 queries a day, as
stated here:
http://code.google.com/apis/soapsearch/api_faq.html#gen12
But at the verry top of that page it says clearly: Google SOAP
Search
API (No Longer Available)
So I'm a bit confused: What is ''no longer available'' addressing?
Is
it the SOAP or the API?? Because the API is still in use..??
I hope someone can answer my question because I want to integrate the
API with my website and I will have more than 1000 queries a day for
sure.
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