What do you use API for?

[qll]

I don't understand if it is a profitable model or some special feature you think your users must have or they will leave.

I don't see any profit in API, not like AMZN API or Adsense, Adsearch ...

[bobafind]

A lot of people use the API to provide useful tools to their users, in turn driving traffic and hopefully clicks or conversions.

example:

Keyword Ranking, Backlink and PageRank Tracker (http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/keywords/)

:)

[minstrel]

The API is a free resource made available to you by Google, providing you agree to their TOS, which gives you access to something like 1000 queries of the Google database per day -- useful for checking keywords, etc., or for developing scripts or applications. It's in part a way of getting around mass submission and optimization programs like WebPosition Gold and cramming Google's "bandwidth".

[qll]

The API is a free resource made available to you by Google, providing you agree to their TOS, which gives you access to something like 1000 queries of the Google database per day -- useful for checking keywords, etc., or for developing scripts or applications. It's in part a way of getting around mass submission and optimization programs like WebPosition Gold and cramming Google's "bandwidth".

if i don't use API, but do direct hits to google search, does anyone know how many hits i am allowed?

i still can not think of a good use of google api. why do you really care of the result returned from google? as adsense is mainly targeted of keywords and adsense is already allowing adsense on search results.

[minstrel]

i still can not think of a good use of google api.
well for one thing you can't use the keyword tracker here without one ;)

as adsense is mainly targeted of keywords and adsense is already allowing adsense on search results.
now I'm confused -- your initial question wasn't about AdSense but about the Google API -- what are you trying to ask abiut AdSense?

[qll]

well for one thing you can't use the keyword tracker here without one ;)


now I'm confused -- your initial question wasn't about AdSense but about the Google API -- what are you trying to ask abiut AdSense?


Excuse my partial understanding of Google API. Isn't that just an XML interface to the google backend? Why don't you use google.com's main search for keyword tracking? Google.com's search is pretty fast and the returning result is mostly text. Nothing more than XML. it is very easy to parse.

I parsed news.google.com with 5 line code. The value on google.com is less as news carries more value as they are from credited sites with cutting edge key phrases.

[minstrel]

API = "Application Program Interface" or "Application Programming Interface"

See this page for information on Google's API (http://www.google.com/apis/) and here for getting a Google API account and license key (https://www.google.com/accounts/NewAccount?continue=http://api.google.com/createkey&followup=http://api.google.com/createkey).

With the Google Web APIs service, software developers can query more than 4 billion web pages directly from their own computer programs. Google uses the SOAP and WSDL standards so a developer can program in his or her favorite environment - such as Java, Perl, or Visual Studio .NET

This isn't related to or needed for AdSense, which is a different Google account entirely.

[Dodger]

Excuse my partial understanding of Google API. Isn't that just an XML interface to the google backend? Why don't you use google.com's main search for keyword tracking? Google.com's search is pretty fast and the returning result is mostly text. Nothing more than XML. it is very easy to parse.

I parsed news.google.com with 5 line code. The value on google.com is less as news carries more value as they are from credited sites with cutting edge key phrases.

The Google API interfaces with Search proper. It is an SOAP web appliance technically. You can use php scripting to pull 10 results from any search query you wish, up to 1000 queries per day.

To scrape the site (as in your News code) goes against the Google TOS and you should be careful about that, at least do not own up to doing it in a public forum. :D

[qll]

The Google API interfaces with Search proper. It is an SOAP web appliance technically. You can use php scripting to pull 10 results from any search query you wish, up to 1000 queries per day.

To scrape the site (as in your News code) goes against the Google TOS and you should be careful about that, at least do not own up to doing it in a public forum. :D

Are you sure only 10 results per query? So if I want 100 results, I will waste 10 queries? That is silly. Direct search is much better. With direct search, you can get 100 results at once and no limit per day. Just need some extra parsing.

[digitalpoint]

Correct... you are limited to 10 per query with the API, no way around it.

[schlottke]

With direct search you can't do things the API Allows... People don't use the API for providing search results usually, its more for use with tools.

[qll]

Correct... you are limited to 10 per query with the API, no way around it.

OK, then can you tell me how this one works?
http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/pagerank-search/

it allows 100 returns. it seems to me that they have more than 1000 query per day, still working. google is not blocking them at all.

[digitalpoint]

They don't use the API.

[qll]

They don't use the API.
why didn't google block their access? i am sure they have more than 1000 hits per day.

[digitalpoint]

Ask Google...

[Dodger]

Gotta love those short concise answers! :D

[tomecki]

Google doesn't agree with automated queries without google API. It is on the TOS.

[webinv]

I use Google API in conjunction with e107.org. I have a plugin that allows people to search google directly from my site. There are no advertisements in the SERP and the results show up directly in my page.

[tagcloud]

Try this sample API application called Gabhile.
Its a good implementation of Google web APIs

[minstrel]

Why? What does it do?

[Not Registered]

Why? What does it do?
Try this:
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=87457

[tagcloud]

It does what Rollyo allows you to do with Yahoo APIs. But unlike Rollyo it lets you l restrict yuur search to even specific directories within websites which helps you get more relevant results.

[tagcloud]

It allows you to personalise your Google Search by adding sites to your own categories and then searching only those sites with Google

[letsjoy]

can we directly parse google for makin our small search engine ?

[minstrel]

For local or personal use, maybe, although I don't know why you'd want to. For commercial use or for profit, not a chance.

[letsjoy]

then how people parse google for commercial use

like wapda.com

what is he doin ?

[minstrel]

He's using Google search on his site and he's acknowledging that it's Google, not his own search engine. Nothing wrong with that.

Scraping the results and claiming the results for yourself would be a really bad idea.

[letsjoy]

well thanx learnt alot abt API

[enampwd]

I am doing a large research job for long time using google API. I have collected about 40k sites which uses oscommerce. I am searching for more sites.

[stojan]

Sorry guys , I am new to this but isn`t the API your login name for google ?

stojan

[hajagha]

hi,
I'm new to google API. it seems that google has closed it's soap so we cannot use API for that 1000 queries. I want to use google db compare the keywords people search in my country. like keyword suggestion and ...
is it true?

[hajagha]

no answer?