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From that page: "The Google AJAX Search API lets you put Google Search in your web pages with JavaScript." I've never understood why they call that an API. It
by wildwood 18y ago
From that page: "The Google AJAX Search API lets you put Google Search in your web pages with JavaScript."
I've never understood why they call that an API. It's not. It's a web 2.0 widget.
Google used to have a SOAP-based API for natural search results, and it was sweet. I miss those days...
- leoc 18y agoIt seems the AJAX Search API now lets you get a machine-readable list of search results in a relatively straightforward fashion; I'm not sure that was true back when the SOAP API was canned. http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/documentation/#fonje http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/documentation/#fonje But the terms and conditions still seem to prevent you from using structured data to do anything useful to the search results. http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/terms.html http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/terms.html (see especially the start of 1.3)