Is there a way to consult Google about it? On May 4, 1:53 pm, Jeremy Geerdes <jrgeer...@gmail.com> wrote: > If I were a legal expert, I would say that your remixing of the > results is indeed a violation of this clause. However, I am not a > legal expert, and I don't know anyone on the group that would claim to > be one, so if you have any doubts - and I certainly would - I would > consult a lawyer or someone else that would be able to tell you > definitively. > > Jeremy R. Geerdes > Effective website design & development > Des Moines, IA > > For more information or a project > quote:http://jgeerdes.home.mchsi.comhttp://jgeerdes.blogspot.comhttp://jgeerdes.wordpress.com > jgeer...@mchsi.com > > Unless otherwise noted, any price quotes contained within this > communication are given in US dollars. > > If you're in the Des Moines, IA, area, check out Debra Heights > Wesleyan Church! > > And check out my blog, Adventures in Web Development, > athttp://jgeerdes.blogspot.com > ! > > On May 4, 2009, at 1:24 AM, Dmitry wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > We are developing an application using Google AJAX API and we'd like > > to make sure we are not violating TOS with it. > > > Here's how our application works: > > > The application gets an URL from the user, extracts text from this URL > > and makes searches for multiple text fragments using Google API > > (meaning makes multiple queries). Then it orders the URLs by how often > > they appear overall in the results (for example, if we made 10 queries > > andwww.example.comwas in results of all of them, then it will be on > > top of our list). The URLs which have frequency (how often they appear > > in the results) lower than 20% are not displayed. The user can see the > > set of URLs sorted by this frequency descending. The initial URL is > > not displayed in the results. > > We do not display it exactly like Google does. We display them just as > > a set of URLs plus we add some icons indicating what was the frequency > > of each URL. > > Also, we do not modify the resulting URLs although we are planning to > > do so to show the user (by highlighting) what part of the source URL > > is contained in the resulting URLs. > > > The question is: does it violate TOS? > > > Here's the TOS I refer > > to:http://code.google.com/intl/ru/apis/ajaxsearch/terms.html > > > The particular paragraph is: > > > "1.3 Appropriate Conduct and Prohibited Uses. The Service may be used > > only for services that are accessible to your end users without > > charge. > > > You agree that you will not, and you will not permit your users or > > other third parties to: (a) modify or replace the text, images, or > > other content of the Google Search Results, including by (i) changing > > the order in which the Google Search Results appear, (ii) intermixing > > Search Results from sources other than Google, or (iii) intermixing > > other content such that it appears to be part of the Google Search > > Results; or (b) modify, replace or otherwise disable the functioning > > of links to Google or third party websites provided in the Google > > Search Results." > > > Thanks.
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