Thursday, April 11, 2002

Oops, it's 1,000 queries per day not month. Let the floodgates open! That's just over 41 queries an hour. 8:22:48 PM    comment []

The following is cut-and-pasted directly out of my instant outline. Ok, so I got my early christmas present. Google SOAP API. Now I get to learn SOAP. Hooray. Now that we can programatically get search results back from Google, what can we do with it? 1000 searches a month is only about 33 searches per day, which isn't much more than 1 search an hour. Therefore, if we're going to do anything useful with our keys, we have to do the following things: Limit the number of calls. Don't exceed more than 1.375 searches an hour on average (heh). If you're including searches on a web page, like a PHP script or whatever, you should probably not dynamically get results back. Call the search once an hour and create static content. Wisely use the info we get. We only get the top 10 searches. Therefore, we have to make our searches count. We need to make them as relevant as possible. How do we manage this? Other thoughts: What inferences can we make about the positioning of results for a specific search term? Is there any interesting statistical data that we can glean from the searches? Popularity of things, Memes. Contents of the pages that are listed in the Google top 10. What if we analyze each of the pages that are returned in results? "One-off" searches for research are good, but what if we made the same search over a period of time, and graphed the results? See also: http://www.netsplit.de/ How long until we can search Google groups? :) How long until Daypop gets an API? :) 7:06:08 PM    comment []

Scripting News: Come back here in a few minutes for some really big news OH GOD THE PRESSURE ITS LIKE CHRISTMAS I think it's Google's interface. 1:02:35 PM    comment []