I'm experiencing the same issue. It's particularly painful in my case
because I'm searching for terms that are extremely rare. It's not
uncommon to get only 1 hit on google.com and none via the API. My
servers that are not as up to date as google.com. Anyway, if anyone
> Hello -
> I know that the search results are usually a little different, but not
> enough to affect the reliability of the results.
> About a month ago, I noticed an issue where a certain site was just
> not in the search API results for any of the queries that it would
> normally come up in, but was all over search results on Google.com
> (even on the first search result page).
> Has anyone else experienced this? I'm not really sure how to file a
> bug since the Developer Documentation says to post it here on the
> Group.
> Thanks.
> -Landy
> On Nov 9, 2:13 pm, searchtools-avi <searchto...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > As far as I know, it's not fixed.
> > I think there will always be *some* differences, because the google
> > web search servers are so dynamic and updates percolate differently.
> > So far, I've never done a Custom Search call and haddifferentnumber
> > ofresults, but it's easy to see in the web search interface.
> > Best of luck,
> > Avi
> > On Nov 7, 4:40 am, Josu <jordisu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > I'm using the REST interface and I'm gettingdifferentresults. I've
> > > seen issue 43 in code.google.com that is talking about this. However
> > > I've realized that is open since May-2008. Will be fixed? Do we need
> > > to change anything in the queries?
> > > Best Regards,
> > > Jordi Suņer