Google Creates API Program

Google's now offering an API program at http://www.google.com/apis/ . This program allows developers to query Google from within their own programs. This program is in beta and currently restricts a program to 1000 queries a day.

These are the days I wish I knew more than a smattering of Perl; I'd love to get up to my elbows in this API and see what I could make it to. And there are some things that are really making me curious.

If you read ResearchBuzz Extra, you know that &as_qdr=mx is a Google URL hack; x=at least one and &as_qdr=mx equals how recent, in number of months, the search results should be. Here's the thing, though; how far does this go? Does &as_qdr=dx the number of days? Is &as_qdr=wx the number of weeks? Can I combine syntaxes with this method that I can't combine at the Web site?

Of course, there are bunches of people out there who are wizards and they're already putting the Google API to work or bending it to their will:

http://www.anupriyo.com/gs.shtml 

http://www.xmlrpc.com/googleGateway 

http://interconnected.org/googlematic/ 

http://www.10500bc.org/code/mt_howto_googleapi.php 

http://toys.incutio.com/php/php-google-web-api.html 

http://diveintomark.org/projects/#pygoogle 

In the case where these are live examples, please don't pound on them. Remember that every key is restricted to 1000 searches a day.

Posted to Search Engines-Google