The Google APIs

The Google APIs comprise the Google Web APIs service that software developers can use to add Google's functionality to their own programs.

Google APIs documentation
Applications from Building Research Tools with Google For Dummies
Source code from Building Research Tools with Google For Dummies
Part IV (Chapters 13 - 18): The APIs

The three Google APIs are:

doGetCachedPage, returns a page from the Google cache

doGoogleSearch, which performs a Google search based on the query passed to it and returns the results in an array

doSpellingSuggestion, which returns a spelling suggestion (if Google has one). In order to use these APIs, you need a Google Developer Key. (See Chapter 14 for information about obtaining a Developer Key and downloading the Google APIs Software Development Kit.

The Google APIs are Web methods that can be used (in conjunction with the Google Web APIs service) with any programming language and development environment that can work with Web services.

The most important Google API is doGoogleSearch, which can be used with sophisticated Google search strings to create a wide variety research tools using the information that a Google Search makes available.

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