Does anyone know whether the 1000 queries per day limit means: 1. 1000 queries in a calendar day - if so which time zone do they use to start a fresh day? 2. 1000 queries in any one 24 hour period?
I am not sure with API resets. I checked one late day and tried to check in morning of next day and ran out of queries. By lunch it had reset and I finished my check. Roughly think it is a 24 hour period.
What happens when you run out of queries. Can't people use it to search any more. If so wouldn't this be damaging to your site.
yes it would be damaging to your site. The 1000 queries is intended for personal use, its not supposed to be used to create a google mirror. I think there are some people who have special super keys which allow them to perform alot more than 1000, im not sure how you go about getting one of these tho. I prefer just to scrape the stuff from the frontdoor.