Google Web Services

The first step is to download the beta kit (or the actual web services package if this has turned into a product by the time you're reading this). Go to http://www.google.com/apis/ read the license and click to download the zip file.

The license makes clear this is for personal use; you're not allowed to build this into commercial products. You're also restricted to fewer than 1000 queries a day, and not more frequently than one a second. Google may well offer a different license in future. You've got to respect their trademarks and agree this is beta software which might not work. The download is less than one MB, so only takes a few seconds.

Before you can go any further, you need to create a Google account. This is ...

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