do Google Search provide an API for application?

Question

I am trying to build PC application in java, and i want to search for something on the internet. my question is can i use Google search engine and grap the results from it ? do google provide an API for this ?

for example: assume i want to search for "Apple" on the internet 1- i want to connect to Google search service (in some way) 2- put "Apple" as input 3- collect the search results

i hope that the results i get is the same like the results if i searched "Apple" manually in google website

Answer 1

Yes Google do provide you SEARCH API. You can use a RESTFUL Service to extract the search information.

Please note it comes with a restriction, only 100 free search results per day. You can also try out Bing Search API