On Jan 26, 10:05 pm, Alpha Blue <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote: > I've written a complete custom built gui search engine in C++, and I'm > also in the process of building a new GUI search engine for ruby. In > order to understand google's references, you have to look at their API. > > http://www.googleguide.com/advanced_operators.html > > This will get you started. > > In terms of answering your question the search would be: > > http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&as_q=&as_epq=my+author > > .. where search?hl=en (means english) > .. where &as_q= (means start a query output) > .. where &as_epq= (means find an author) > .. where my+author (would be first+last name)
Just found the google api, at http://code.google.com/apis/soapsearch/reference.html, and there is no trace of your as_q neither as_epq :( Can you tell me why ? > It seems pretty simple but it's not. You should make sure that you > enforce URI encoding standards when submitting your URLs. > > I hope this helps you to get started. > > -- > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/. all my best, radu -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
