Unlike other search APIs (e.g., Yahoo! BOSS, MS Bing), there is no hard and fast limit on the number of search requests your users can submit outside a couple of general rules. First, the TOS prohibit the use of robots, spiders, and other applications which make automated queries. If they have reason to suspect this is what you're doing, Google will ban you from using the site. And second, if you are causing an inordinate load on Google's servers, they may ban you as a DDoS attack and just stop responding. The threshold on this latter provision is rather high, and I doubt very much that your site will ever hit it if you're using the API in a manner consistent with the TOS. You can check out the TOS here:
http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/terms.html That said, it should be noted that, rather than limiting the number of queries you can submit, the Google AJAX Search API is limited in the number of results that it will return. Namely, you can retrieve only up to 32 results for Local Search, and up to 64 for other searchers. Jeremy R. Geerdes Effective website design & development Des Moines, IA For more information or a project quote: http://jgeerdes.home.mchsi.com [email protected] If you're in the Des Moines, IA, area, check out Debra Heights Wesleyan Church! On Feb 3, 2010, at 6:49 AM, Gendyw wrote: > Welcome > > I have a file-search website. > How many queries to Google from my site users can generate? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google AJAX APIs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-ajax-search-api?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google AJAX APIs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-ajax-search-api?hl=en.
