Hi everyone,
I am recently working on a real estate website http://www.rbasket.com.au and one of the requirement is to merge result from GoogleBase housing with the results from our existing internal search engine.
According to Google TOS, all traffic from GoogleBase must be realtime (caching is not allowed). So my interpretation is that whenever we want a result from Google, we need to explicitly make a request to them, fetch the result, merge them back to our existing search results. One difficulty with this approach is to have a merging algorithm that works for paging and sorting of the merged results. I cannot think of any efficient algorithm which allows a user to jump directly to page 20 of the merged results.
I'd to know if anyone has been working with GoogleBase on this similar integration before & willing to share some thoughts on this.