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Google Base API Programming
Posted By admin On September 8, 2008 @ 4:45 am In Uncategorized | No Comments
Many web owners don’t realize that Google has a free service to list your products or information. No waiting and hoping for Google to find and include your site. The information you provide is almost immediately searchable via [1] Google Base.
If you have a few items that you want to share, you can use Google’s form. If you have a large number of items that are regularly updated, Google’s Base API is an excellent way to feed your information but it takes programming knowledge which is where our API Coders’ programming service comes in.
[2] Angelic Baby Shower Gifts had a shopping cart with a Microsoft SQL database. The system is legacy code which was designed by Storefront before Google even had a Google Base API.
API Coders programmed a form to choose which items to feed to Google Base and set up a Windows scheduled event to regularly provide an XML feed to Google Base.
Here are just a few ideas of information you can post to Google Base:
The full list of appropriate use of the Google Base API is part of [3] Google Terms and Conditions for the use of Google Base. However, here are a few things that you can’t post:
Google has API’s which will help you narrow their universe of information into custom subsets of Google data targeted for your visitors. Custom search forms can be designed using dropdowns, checkboxes, radio buttons and Boolean search on your site to quickly locate specific information such as:
Google provides a recipe book to demo their code. Click here to see their [4] recipe book.
Check out [5] Google Code Labs to get ideas and learn about Google’s free code. If you need a programmer, please tell API Coders about your project. [6] Contact us today for a free quote.
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[1] Google Base: http://code.google.com/apis/base/index.html
[2] Angelic Baby Shower Gifts: http://angelicbabyshowergifts.com/
[3] Google Terms and Conditions: http://base.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=62594&hl=en
[4] recipe book: http://www.google.com/base/api/demo/recipe/recipeSearch
[5] Google Code Labs: http://code.google.com/labs/
[6] Contact us: http://www.apicoders.com/request-a-quote/
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