After more research I found a post by a Google engineer stating that they know a free form query is needed. I believe I misunderstood what Google considers "deprecated". I assumed that meant not to use it anymore, not that they were in the process of creating a new API.
I'll be sticking with the local search API for now. On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Adam "Cezar" Jenkins <[email protected]> wrote: > In my opinion the places API is broken. I don't see how I can just do > a query search using it. Name appears the closes parameter and it is > less than adequate. What are my options? I've been searching for hours > and I'm very close to just using Bing or Yahoo. > > All I want to do is a query search around a certain location. It > really surprises me how difficult Google has made this. > -- 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.
