Google Site Search -- How to use as API?

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Published on 2011-03-08T21:19:09Z Indexed on 2011/03/09 0:18 UTC
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I am trying to get an API that I can use to do searches on my own site.

Google has something called site search and something called custom search. What is the difference?

I make a new site search, then it is listed on a page with "custom search" in the heading. This is really confusing.

I just want an API that I can use to search my site. I would prefer json to xml as the results. And if this service is offered by someone other than Google, that is fine too.

The ones that I create at Google want me to embed a premade search box into my site. I do not want that, I want an API that I can call from PHP or JS.

How can I get this?

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