University Research Program for Google Search

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Overview

The University Research Program for Google Search is designed to give university faculty and their research teams high-volume programmatic access to Google Search, whose huge repository of data constitutes a valuable resource for understanding the structure and contents of the web.

Our aim is to help bootstrap web research by offering basic information about specific search queries. Since the program builds on top of Google's search technology, you'll no longer have to operate your own crawl and indexing systems. We hope this will help enable some useful research, and request only that you publish any work you produce through this program for the academic community's general benefit.

Restrictions

This research program is being made available to members of the academic community. Each applicant must review and adhere to the full terms, which include the following restrictions:

• The research program is open to faculty members and their research teams at colleges and universities, by registration only.
• The program may be used exclusively for academic research, and research results must be made available to the public.
• The program must not be used to display or retrieve interactive search results for end users.
• The program may be used only by registered researchers and their teams, and access may not be shared with others.

Before registering for the Google Search research program, you must read and agree to the full Terms of Use. Please take the time to familiarize yourself with the terms of the program before submitting your application.

Registration

If you are a faculty member of a university and wish to participate in the Google Search research program, please begin the registration process.

Documentation

Once you've become a registered participant of the University Research Program for Google Search, we encourage you to check out the documentation and example code.

Forum

If you still need help, or more information, please check out our Google Group, Google Research Search Program, which serves as a discussion forum for this program.