Hi Dave, To clarify, the Custom Search Element is available without charge, and you can get a share of the ads' revenue by including an AdSense id in the configuration. So whether or not the ads earn $5 CPM, you'll still be making money.
I hope this helps. Thanks, Adam On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Dave <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Adam - I think the Custom Search Element would work in my case. > > However another issue is whether or not this is actually financially > viable. We have to pay $5 per 1000 queries to use the JSON API, but > will we actually make that back through adverts (of whatever type)? We > currently use adsense for search on our other sites, and it generally > makes less revenue than that. > > Bing has a revenue sharing model for their search API, which is more > viable for us (and they do in fact return the ads in the xml/json > api). Currently we are using the bing API, but we would much prefer to > use google instead. > > Dave > > On May 23, 12:05 am, Adam Feldman <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Shabadoo, > > > > Regarding Search Ads: Due to the nature of the ads, there's no way to > > return them in a JSON API. If you ever need ads in a JavaScript > > environment, the Custom Search Element ( > http://www.google.com/webelements/customsearch) is the best way to combine > > AdSense for Search ads with Google Search results. > > > > Regarding quotas: If you're seeing limits on the order of 100 queries > per > > day on the old API, then it's likely that you're hitting the anti-abuse, > per > > IP limits. If you are running your queries server side, be sure to use > the > > userip parameter, as described by the documentation. > > > > In any case, please remember that the old API has been deprecated since > last > > November, and all users are encouraged to migrate to the new, Custom > Search > > API:http://code.google.com/apis/customsearch/v1/overview.html > > > > Thanks, > > Adam > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 10:56 PM, Shabadoo <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Thanks for the heads up on the Custom Search Ads Omr, I hadn't seen it > > > before, it looks good, but it would not work in my case. I'm using > > > Google search results in a non web browser environment, i.e. There is > > > no JavaScript support, not even HTML support for <div> tags. That's > > > why I need to use the JSON/AJAX interface to the API. > > > > > I think I'm seeing the same as you Alex, around 100 requests on the > > > old API per day now. > > > > > On May 23, 1:53 pm, omr <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I'm not familiar with AdSense services, and I don't know if this > would > > > > be suitably applicable in your case, but have you investigated the > > > > "Custom Search Ads" service? > > > > > >http://adsense.blogspot.com/2011/03/ads-youve-been-searching-for.html > > > > > > Implementation: > > > > > > > http://code.google.com/apis/custom-search-ads/docs/implementation-gui... > > > > > >http://code.google.com/apis/custom-search-ads/docs/sample.html > > > > > > Terms: > > > > > >http://code.google.com/apis/custom-search-ads/terms.html > > > > > > -- omr > > > > > -- > > > 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. > > -- 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.
