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
> >
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