Posted by michael.twofish
tagged apis, google, search and yahoo
There's quite a difference between the terms of use of
Google's and
Yahoo!'s search APIs. While both say you're not allowed to do anything illegal or mission critical (I especially like Yahoo! saying you can't rely on the API if you're operating nuclear facilities), they differ in terms of what you're allowed to do with the
results.
Google spends a lot of time saying what you're not allowed to do once you get results (you can only retrieve a small number of results (8 at the moment), you can't use them as the main content on your ...
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