Re: why is the Google main site search result is different from Custom Search API

[Jeremy Geerdes]

First, you need to understand that the Custom Search Engine (CSE) behind the Custom Search API (CSAPI) is not designed to search the entire web. You can set it up to do so in the CSE settings, but that's not really its forte. Second, you also need to understand that the CSAPI was designed specifically to frustrate SEO applications and search applications which would offer direct competition to google.com and other Google properties.

In other words, the discrepancy is by design. And there is no way to get the same number of results except by sheer coincidence.

jg

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Peter Kim <kim.ta...@gmail.com> wrote:

Let say if I search for cars in the main site, I get 1,990,000,000 results. But when I use the Custom Search API, I get 88,900,000 results.

Why are they different and how could you set it up so that the Custom Search will give same number of results?

Thank you,

Peter

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[Peter Kim]

Thanks Jeremy, that makes a lot of sense.

Peter,

On Thursday, March 28, 2013 3:24:49 PM UTC-4, jgeerdes [AJAX APIs "Guru"] wrote:

First, you need to understand that the Custom Search Engine (CSE) behind the Custom Search API (CSAPI) is not designed to search the entire web. You can set it up to do so in the CSE settings, but that's not really its forte. Second, you also need to understand that the CSAPI was designed specifically to frustrate SEO applications and search applications which would offer direct competition to google.com and other Google properties.

In other words, the discrepancy is by design. And there is no way to get the same number of results except by sheer coincidence.

jg

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Peter Kim <kim.ta...@gmail.com> wrote:

Let say if I search for cars in the main site, I get 1,990,000,000 results. But when I use the Custom Search API, I get 88,900,000 results.

Why are they different and how could you set it up so that the Custom Search will give same number of results?

Thank you,

Peter

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