Unfortunately, the Custom Search API is the only legal way to programmatically access Google search services at this time. The good news is that you can set up a CSE to search the whole web by setting it first to search specific sites then returning to the settings, removing those sites, and checking the box to search the whole web. The mediocre news is that you can raise the limit on the number of queries by enabling billing. The bad news is that, even when you do that, you can't get more than 10K queries per 24 hours.
That said, the Web Search API will still operate, in all likelihood, until November 2013. And the Image Search API will probably continue until May 2014. The deprecation policy for both states that Google will make commercially-reasonable efforts to keep the services operational until that point, when they will be discontinued. So you still have a little time. There are other options out there. For instance, I believe that Bing still offers a free API. Also, Yahoo! offers its BOSS API as a paid service, but I believe it has higher usage caps. I have not looked at either of these options in several months, so I don't know anything about their current offerings (or lack thereof). Jeremy R. Geerdes Generally Cool Guy Des Moines, IA For more information or a project quote: [email protected] If you're in the Des Moines, IA, area, check out Debra Heights Wesleyan Church! On Oct 11, 2011, at 12:26 PM, aBs0lut30 wrote: > Custom Search is not really what I am after... Especially considering > how low the request limit is... what I am after is to be able to run a > search through code just as I would from the google search site, get > results back and then pick which site I want send the user to... Not > like the custom search, I just want the normal google search we all > know and love, just in a code friendly format... > > On Oct 11, 12:20 pm, Jeremy Geerdes <[email protected]> wrote: >> Check out the Custom Search API for the successor to the Web Search API. >> There is no announced successor to the Image Search API at this time. >> >> Jeremy R. Geerdes >> Generally Cool Guy >> Des Moines, IA >> >> For more information or a project quote: >> [email protected] >> >> If you're in the Des Moines, IA, area, check out Debra Heights Wesleyan >> Church! >> >> On Oct 11, 2011, at 11:41 AM, aBs0lut30 wrote: >> >>> Hi guys, I am looking for a way to interface with the google web and >>> image search functions to get result sets. I see where the google web >>> search api's are depreciated and wondering if there is still a way to >>> do it... I am developing a little interactive web based game and need >>> to be able to programmaticly run a search for a random keyword and get >>> the results back so I can pick one and send the user to that site. Can >>> anyone point me in the right direction? >> >>> Thanks >> >>> -- >>> 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] >>> To view this message on the web, visit >>> http://groups.google.com/group/google-ajax-search-api?hl=en_US >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/google-ajax-search-api?hl=en?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] > To view this message on the web, visit > http://groups.google.com/group/google-ajax-search-api?hl=en_US > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-ajax-search-api?hl=en?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] To view this message on the web, visit http://groups.google.com/group/google-ajax-search-api?hl=en_US For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-ajax-search-api?hl=en?hl=en
