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Does google have a basic search API?

I assume they do, but looking for it is confusing due to all kinds of other APIs and tools they seem to offer. All I want to do is issue a web request and receive a JSON or XML response containing Google's standard search results, and be able to page through them with new requests, etc. Where can I find this? ...

How to get MySpace profile info using OpenSocial client library?

Any advice on how to get MySpace or Orkut info such as birthdate from a person's profile using OAuth using the OpenSocial PHP Client library? I am lost on the process, and the tutorials are complicated. Any simple code would be helpful! Thanks. ...

Can I display a driving track between two points using the map kit ?

Did I understand correctly: Opening google maps from my App demands closing that App in order to display google maps App? e.g doing so: NSString* urlString = @"http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=London+UK&daddr=Birmingham+UK"; [[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[NSURL URLWithString: urlString]]; will close my App? So how ca...

Android: What does this google analytics dispatcher warning mean ?

Im using google analytics to track the user in my android application, but in my log i keep getting warnings like: 10-22 14:44:08.879: WARN/googleanalytics(1266): Dispatcher thinks it finished, but there were 56 failed events Anyone knows what the problem can be? Im using a correct account key? Has somebody solved the problem with t...

SEO : Adding to Google other than submitting directly for google's crawler - http://www.enshaeyah.webs.com

Hi All, What are other ways of making your website searchable by Google, other than submitting the link directly to Google. Submitting links to yahoo is a breeze, gets crawled for a day or two... Google though takes a while... Thanks... ...

BlackBerry and map based apps like Yelp and Google Map

This is a question-loaded post from someone who is just getting started with BB development. Any guidance is much appreciated. How are map based BlackBerry apps such as Yelp and Google Map implemented? As with the web based version. Yelp for the BB allows you to search for restaurants & etc. based on on the current or specified loca...

Using google as a dictionary lookup via bash, How can one grab the first definition?

#!/bin/bash # Command line look up using Google's define feature - command line dictionary echo "Type in your word:" read word /usr/bin/curl -s -A 'Mozilla/4.0' 'http://www.google.com/search?q=define%3A+'$word \ | html2text -ascii -nobs -style compact -width 500 | grep "*" Dumps a whole series of definitions from google.com an examp...

Google slideshow shows a blank screen when calling from ajax

I'm having problems implementing google slideshow (http://www.google.com/uds/solutions/slideshow/index.html) to my web application by loading it using a jquery load() function. index.html: <script type="text/javascript" src="jquery-1.3.2.js"></script> <div id="moshe"></div> <script type="text/javascript"> $(document).ready(function(...

parse google geocode

I am using the google geocoding api in my app but im finding it hard to parse the returned address information reliably. Im hoping someone has a library or way of parsing the info to prevent me from having to write this my self and cover every case. Im using the json api and can extract the address line and the coordinates easily enough...

google search trends

we can get google's hot trends based on location. is it possible to extract search trends on google based on specific terms say iphone. we search history of terms related to iphone. is this facility provided by google or any other search engine. Edit: is it possible to get data on search history categorized by topic? ...

Google Analytics Retreive data

In one page on my personal site, I like to be able to see some data get from Google Analytics. I like to have a list of all my site and the average visitor per week or per month over the current year I have check some solution: Yahoo Pipe (look complicated) Google Analytics PHP API class(look nice) Google Analytics API (look official...

How to store files in Android's cache directory ?

My goal is store temporary files in the directory returned by Context#getCacheDir(). /data/data/my.app/cache/somedir/foo.json I presume I can just use java.io apis to write files there. But I'm not sure how to set permissions on files there because I would not be able to use Context#MODE_PRIVATE. The filename parameter to Context#ope...

URL name vs indexing

Hi all, i found out that google will only index the top level URL from my site but i have a blog in my site as well that i want it to be listed in blog directories. so my question is: since i name the blog under www.mydomain.com/blog.html it is certain that google will only take www.mydomain.com in to consideartion. so what if i name...

A Tricky Search Engines Trouble: Search Engines Can not Found A page in My Site.

I racked my brain to figure this issue out, but got no luck! So my SO guys, help me! We created a page in our site five days ago, and every thing was done as usual.(means we used template to create the page.) The trouble is, so farm I have not find my page in any of the search engines, even though Google and Bing crawled my site(namely ...

Image series (animation) over Google Maps

I'm new to Google map api. My goal is to overlay a series of transparent PNGs over a map over a timespan. I'm wondering if a purely javascript approach to this is a good start, or if it would be not too hard to do some code behind in asp.net Also, I'm curious if either google map Api v2.x or v3.x is better suited to this task ...

Google Analytics and Python

I'm brand new at Python and I'm trying to write an extension to an app that imports GA information and parses it into MySQL. There is a shamfully sparse amount of infomation on the topic. The Google Docs only seem to have examples in JS and Java... ...I have gotten to the point where my user can authenticate into GA using SubAuth. That...

How to make sure tooltip content is indexed by Google? (Rap lyrics-related)

On Rap Exegesis, you can click lyrics to see them explained in a tooltip: These explanations are stored in hidden <div>s that are included in the page. (Firebug the page linked above to see what I mean) My question is how to make sure these explanations are indexed by Google, since by default Google doesn't index invisible content (r...

ZXing ("Zebra Crossing") in C#

I'm looking for a good open-source library that can find and read a barcode from an image (versus using a barcode scanner). From other questions on Stack Overflow, I've found that ZXing ("Zebra Crossing") is quite good. Though it is made for Java, there is a C# port - however, I believe that it might not be complete. Do you think it is r...

Search and display buisness locations on MKMapView

Hello, I'm trying to find a way to search for a business, such as "grocery stores" and display them on a google map around the users current location. This used to be pretty simple with the old URL style of launching the apple map location but I can't find out how to do it with the MKMapView. I understand that I'll need to use the MKA...

Visual Basic Application Help

I want to make an application witch involves logging into google. It is basically a small application to always have your gmail with you without always having to go to the web browser and log in. Basically what I want to do is, when the person signs into their google account (or the page url changes) I want the webbrowser to refresh and ...