I want to display the amount of competing pages for a particular keyword phrase in Google search results. For example the page might read “The keyword “example†has about 588,000,000 competing pages†Where the number 588,000,000 is dynamic since I have to this for many keywords. Is there a way to scrape the “Results 1 - 10 of about 588,000,000†off Google? API? Another source that shows similar data? My site runs PHP. All feedback is appreciated. Thanks! -Eric
The API has something called "estimatedResultCount" which you can get returned, but it's very innacurate from what I've heard. You may be better off doing a search and then scraping the result count from that, bypassing the API. But, this is against Googles terms of service.