Polling Search Engines

[Marty Knapp]

>>for how to sign up for a developer key for the Google APIs. Last I heard
>>you get 1000 queries per day, each of which may return max 10 results.
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>And therein lies the rub. If I, say, create an app that uses the
>Google API it's linked to my Google developer id. If I then
>distribute that app, my developer id is responsible for *all* those
>accumulated queries. If my app becomes wildly popular and 1001 people
>use it once in a single day, every single one of those copies will
>stop working. AND every other app I have created using my developer id
>will also stop working.
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I'm building an app that helps me analyze keyword data (like from 
WordTracker). Since I probably can't automate further research, I 
thought that a least a double click on a specific keyword could launch a 
browser and do a search engine query (whether Google, MSN, or whatever). 
I did a search, then copied the resulting URL, went back to Rev, 
modified the search string so that I could insert my keyword phrase and 
used the revGoURL command to run it. It worked, but then I tried a 
couple of different browsers to compare the URLs that are generated from 
a search and found them to be different;

 From Mac IE (my default browser): 
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=funny+bumper+stickers
 From Safari: 
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en-us&q=funny+bumper+stickers&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

And from IE on my PC it was different that either of these! I tried 
deleting parts of the url only to break it. What I'd like is a generic 
search query that would open the user's default browser. When I switch 
my default browser to Safari the first query works, and works on my PC, 
but I'm curious as to the differences.

Hopefully this isnt a violation of googles terms . . .


Marty