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How can I use Google's Geocoding to normalize addresses without violating the terms of service?

I'm working on a API that will accept addresses in searches. We would like to use Google's geocoding service to normalize the addresses before submitting the search criteria to our search engine. This caught my attention: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/geocoding/index.html#Limits "Note: the Geocoding API may only be u...

How to translate from English to french using C#

I have the following code private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { ResXResourceReader resourceReader = new ResXResourceReader("EN-US.resx"); foreach (DictionaryEntry dictonary in resourceReader) { //call google API to translate the entry MessageBox.Show(dictonary.Key...

Integrating Google Desktop Search into a website using PHP, hosted in a Linux environment.

Is there a way to make a search call to GDS in PHP and have it return XML containing the search results? The Google Desktop API documentation page specifically states: "This document describes methods for issuing Desktop search queries using HTTP and XML. This XML-based API is supported by both the Windows and Mac OS X versions of ...

Is there any way to shorten url by goo.gl by javascript

I want to add a button at my webpage, when I click the button it will try to locate goo.gl and input the current url. How could I use goo.gl service by javascript? FYI: I found somthing at here http://www.labnol.org/internet/create-google-short-url/11748/ but how to import this function? var auth_token = getUrlShorteningRequestParams(...

Android google calendar permission issue

Hello, I am using google-api-client to access Google calendar. Following are the permissions in my manifest file. <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" /> <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.GET_ACCOUNTS" /> <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.USE_CREDENTIALS" /> <uses-permis...

Google API Request Limit

Does anyone know where I can find Google API Request Limits for their different services? On simulating 500+ concurrent users it seems to fail silently fairly often (maybe 1 in 10 loads) Any ideas? ...

Google Custom Search CSE - Highlight results

Hi, More of an answer than a question, but thought I'd share this as I've just managed to workout using the Firefox add-on, Firebug, (Original source here) - how to highlight the results search term on a google custom search, which had been bugging me for a while now. Simply add this to your stylesheet, et voila - .gsc-results .gs-sni...

Embed private Google spreadsheet

Hi - I'm trying to work out the best way to display a Google spreadsheet in the members section of a website. Although the info in the spreadsheet isn't hugely sensitive, I'm not keen on publishing it and embedding it using an iFrame, so am trying to find a way to embed the spreadsheet while still keeping it private. I've tried using t...

google search in my website

hello! Is it legal to use the google search results in my own website not using the google custom search that google provides? I have 2 different cases: The first is that I design a search box, with a google logo and provide options so the user selects which type of content (web, images, videos...), and the the results open in a new w...

building floor plan in google map api

Hi, We have floor plans of a building in png format. I want to provide Google Map API( or any better Map solution) to the client to locate the buildings from a world map. The requirement is when the user clicks on a building, it has to load my floor plan of the building in the canvas. I was looking into overlays and mashups. Not able to ...

How can I send data from Yahoo quotes to MySQL with Perl?

After I download data from Yahoo and Google finance, how I do use a Perl script to send these to MySQL database automatically? ...

foursquare API and java

I am planning to develop a very simple java application (not mobile, but desktop apps) that utilizes web services, specifically Foursquare API and Google Map Web Service. I plan to get the users address and then using Google Map to translate the address to lattitude and longitude then feed this result to foursquare API method Venue metho...

Sending queries to google using python

Hi, I need a code with which I can send queries to Google and get the results back for some processing. i am mostly interested in retrieving the snippets of the results. It would be nice if I can do this without installing any extra packages for Python. A pre-written api would also do the trick. Thanks ...

Google Map implementation not working on Safari and Chrome

Hi everybody, I am implementing a google map on the contact page of this website: http://www.vqt.ch/dev/?lang=fr&amp;page=contact The map displays in the rectangle on the top of the page. Everything is working fine on Firefox, but nothing is displayed on Safari & Chrome... Here is the way I implement it: <script src="http://maps.g...

Attaching parameters with javascript closures to default parameters in anonymous functions

I want to add some extra parameters to the Google geocoder API call as I'm running it in a loop, but am not sure how to append closure parameters to their anonymous function that already has default parameters that are passed in by the call to the API. For example: for(var i = 0; i < 5; i++) { geocoder.geocode({'address': address}...

Xcode google map navigation

I currently have an application which will drop pins onto various points of interest on a map, all done programmatically on the iPhone. What I am aiming to get done now is to allow a user to navigate to that location and get turn by turn directions by calling up the built in navigation tools on the iPhone. Is there anyway that I can do...

Choosing seo long tail google adwords

Can anyone suggest a good tool for helping us decide on some long tail terms for using as google adwords? All the best ...

Slicing a result list by time value

I got a result list and want to keep the elements that are newer than timeline and older than bookmark. Is there a more convenient method than iterating the whole list and removing the elements if they match the conditition? Can you introduce me to how specically how? The way I fetch data and then sort it results = A.all().search(self.r...

PHP solution to do Google federated login easily?

I see stackoverflow's login system and love the simplicity of clicking one button to log in using Google gmail account. Is there something available for PHP? I know there's solutions out there for Django and others. But would like a PHP solution. Thanks! ...

should a web app stay on a single page and why?

I've just noticed that several web application such as gmail, google calendar, zoho writer, etc are implemented using a single page only (not counting the logging form, just the main application) There's no "open link in new tab"(at least the app don't need to open any new page to be functional) and such. What are the reasons to implem...