Google Ajax Search API

Conclusions

By now, we’re sure you realize that using the Ajax Search API is more than just adding web search to your web site or your web applications. With the Ajax Search API, you can add web search (including searching a custom search engine), image search, video search, local search, news search, blog search, and book search. The Ajax Search API, therefore, provides a rich source of data from all over the internet and can be used to not only add search but to also create new and novel mashups. In addition, we’re guessing that it’s only a matter of time before Google adds even more support for different types of searches in the Ajax Search API, thus giving you even more data to play with.

The Ajax Search API is also dead simple to integrate into your web site. Its JavaScript based layered structure of raw search results, forms, and controls make it easy to add search to your web site and customize it within minutes. There are just so many levers that can be used to customize the search to fit into your web site or web applications that you should find that easy to accomplish even the most advanced customization tasks. In most cases, what may normally take you hours with other search APIs should take you a few minutes with the Google Ajax Search API.

And finally, if writing code is just not your thing, we’re sure that you love using the wizards to generate code that you can cut and paste onto your web site. It’s as simple as setting some settings using the wizard and pushing the ...