I am struggling to calculate KEI (
http://www.wordtracker.com/database_help/keihelp.html) data from Google services using a perl script. My problem is legal not technical. To do the calculation I need the number of results returned and the monthly number of searches. The former I can get from the search API (
http://code.google.com/intl/en/apis/ajaxsearch/web.html) and the latter from the Adwords API (
http://code.google.com/intl/en/apis/...olService.html). The former's TOS require that any use of the API be freely available. The latter requires a small payment. My reading of the TOS seems to imply not only that the two data sources cannot be merged to provide KEI, but it almost looks intentional. I have tried to contact Google about this but without success. I cannot see why Google would want to block access to this data. I would have thought they would just add functions like this to the external keyword tool.
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