We are using Big Commerce for our e-commerce store; we are adding BOLD Commerce for our subscriptions. IN Big Commerce it wants a "Google Maps API Key" and in BOLD Commerce it wants "Google Autocomplete API key". When researching it is not exactly clear if the SAME API key would work for both. I am hoping to not need 2 different services.
I am looking for advice and guidance on this.
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I have started a small IT service company recently in India. I was approached by an Big Enterprise asking to design a custom search engine (for internal/web usage) using the Google's custom search engine api.
it has to fetch info from a specific set of websites (internal websites / common web search)
if a particular website is selected before search, it should display the info from that website only.
Enterprise has a webpages that can be accessed with authentication. when user logged-in, the search has to fetch info from those authenticated webpages as well.
the contents should be segregated into images, books, movies, music, etc.
auto complete and search while typing
once we finish this design, may have to run it as a android application using phone gap(cordova lib).
My Questions:
Is Google allow me to do implementation for the Enterprise (they ready to use and pay Usage Charge for using Google search api), and Can I charge the enterprise for implementation and support (agreement will be made between my company and enterprise)?
Is Google provide ad free search results for custom search? If not can we do restriction on the result?
Is Google search engine can be extended to android app?
If your answer is "No" for above questions, if I develop search engine solution on my own, how can I do that?
Google Custom Search is searching only publicly available documents. For internal websites, you can check out Google Search Appliance: http://www.google.com/enterprise/search/products/gsa.html
I am building a mobile app.
I am not merchant, I am just an app developer.
I want to integrate some of google's search abilities, and so I have stumbled upon Google Commerce Search. Its features seem to cover the exact features I am looking for.
However, it seems as though it's only meant for retailers, and the pricing is accordingly.
So my questions are:
Is there any way to integrate Google's product or commerce search through an publicly open
api?
Is there any way to integrate some image search as well (find similar images)?
Thank you.
I have been using the Google Websearch API for over 1 year now. The service was deprecated in Nov 2010 but continues to provide results to date. More recently, google has started to enforce the 1,000 queries (?) per day limit on this deprecated service. I swear, last month I made over 10,000 API calls in one day without any errors from the service (same IP, same API key).
So I guess my question is has anyone found an alternative yet? I know yahoo boss is pretty good but I am working exclusively on Google for my projects. I do not mind spending money for for this service either as long as i can get 64 results from Google.
On that thought, how are services like Zoomrank able to bypass all Google limits? I have a subscription with Zoomrank and I can get daily rankings for all my keywords. Do they have a tie-up with Google or are they just accessing some secret service I don't know about.
Some people have suggested the new Google custom search, but i dont know how does that help me search the web? Google CS is limited to the CSE you create and searches within those engines. If I am looking for web results for Pizza, Google CS doesnt help me.
Thanks for your input. Much appreciated
UPDATE: #ggez44 points to some official Google documentation of the solution described below here: http://support.google.com/customsearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1210656
You can use the Google Custom Search Engine to search the entire web.
In brief:
Create a CSE that searches a single site (e.g. google.com)
In the CSE control panel's Basics section, set to "Search the entire web but emphasize certain sites"
In the Sites section, delete the single site that you added when you created the CSE
Full details here:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/customsearch/thread?tid=56c0bd92dda351b7&hl=en&fid=56c0bd92dda351b7000495e3f500d83f
Once that's implemented, you can enable billing in the Google API Console at a CPM of $5, to a total of 10,000 queries.
Google API Console: https://code.google.com/apis/console/
Pricing: https://code.google.com/apis/customsearch/v1/overview.html#Pricing
I need to provide search functionality as the cornerstone of my app (basically I think I can make a better interface than whats is offered by Google, bing, yahoo - bold claim I know). Therefore I will not build an entire search engine from scratch, I will rather use an API provider by a major search engine and simply modify the interface that present the results to my visitors. I am a Google fanboi and I initially tried to use Google Search AJAX API. However, I was very disappointed since I can barely change anything at all.
Specifically;
I need an API that will let me pull programmatically the results from a major search engine and let me output them with the style and goodies that I want.
I am not looking to alter the order in which the search results are presented to the user by inserting crap in between the good results (this is against my philosophy). But I would like to wrap massive php/javascript around each search results so that I can completely control how each result is graphically rendered.
I heard of the BING API 2.0, would that be more flexible than Google AJAX API? Could anyone provide output if any of the current search providers are offering API for this purpose right now?
After careful investigation it appears to me that the Bing 2.0 API is the most flexible and robust search API currently on the market.
The Bing API does require you to put their ads next to the results. You can place your own ads with the Yahoo API. The Yahoo API uses the same search technology (same results) and can be used starting from $0,40 per 1000 queries. The lowest, bulk price of the Google API is $4,00 per 1000 queries. Google's relevance is easily ten times higher for the somewhat more advanced queries.
And also Bing version 2 search API is free!
Whereas, Yahoo BOSS V2 has pricing and so Google does custom search API.
What URL can I visit to get myself a Google API Account? While sites point to http://www.google.com/apis and talk of "easy steps", I just can't figure it out.
Background:
There are places on the web that offer google services if you give them your Google API account key (in my case http://www.freesitemapgenerator.com and index retrieval).
They say to go to http://www.google.com/apis, but that just redirects me to http://code.google.com. There are no "easy instructions" for me to follow to get an account.
Am I going crazy here? (I have analytics and webmaster tools etc activated, so I somewhat know what I'm doing).
Since December 2006, Google is no longer issuing these API keys
As far as I understand, you apply for an API key, and you can do that with any Google account. The various API's appear to require different keys. To get a key for the Maps API, visit:
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/signup.html
The products directory on Google Code lists each of the products for which Google appears to offer some sort of interaction from developers, some of which have API keys. Take a look at that page and visit the home page for each product in order to obtain a key.
Specifically, you can look at the Google AJAX API's page, which features each of the products for which an AJAX API exists.
You need to create project, as API key is associated with project. Here you can do this
https://code.google.com/apis/console/
Maybe have a look here and remember that "A single Maps API key is valid for a single "directory" or domain".