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Building Web services applications with the Google API

Nicholas Chase, Author, Web site developer
Nicholas Chase has been involved in Web site development for companies such as Lucent Technologies, Sun Microsystems, Oracle, and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Nick has been a high school physics teacher, a low-level radioactive waste facility manager, an online science fiction magazine editor, a multimedia engineer, and an Oracle instructor. More recently, he was the Chief Technology Officer of Site Dynamics Interactive Communications in Clearwater, Florida, and is the author of three books on Web development, including Java and XML From Scratch (Que) and the upcoming Primer Plus XML Programming (SAM). He loves to hear from readers and can be reached at nicholas@nicholaschase.com.

Summary:  The Google search engine can now be accessed via a SOAP-based Web service. This means that developers can now embed Google search results and other information into their own applications. Google also took this project one step further, creating an API and Java toolkit for accessing the data. This tutorial is for developers who want to use Google information from within their Java applications.

Date:  15 May 2002
Level:  Intermediate
PDF:  A4 and Letter (109 KB | 32 pages)Get Adobe® Reader®

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Building Java applications with the Google API summary

The Google search engine has made its index, spelling suggestions, and cached pages available via a Web services interface, allowing programmers of all languages to access their information for personal use. They have also provided a Java API, which makes accessing the data more straightforward.

Using the API, developers can execute searches using the same complex queries that can be used on the Google Web site itself, receiving in response an array of results that carry information as to the page, title, URL, category, and other information. This information can then be used by other applications.

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