Google AJAX Search API

To understand how the Google API works i've created a simple servlet that basically does a bit of input and output testing.

The most crucial snippet of code would be:

URL url = new URL("http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/web?v=1.0&q=" + searchQuery + "&rsz=large");

searchQuery was just a string variable containing the search string. The documentation suggests using the JSON object but I couldn't get that to work so I used a stringbuilder and a printerwriter to output the result.

This is what I got when the searchQuery was "howard":

Text file of output.

It is basically in the structure of:

processResults({"responseData": { "results": [ { "GsearchResultClass": "GwebSearch", "unescapedUrl": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Hilton", "url": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Hilton", "visibleUrl": "en.wikipedia.org", "cacheUrl": "http://www.google.com/search?q\u003dcache:TwrPfhd22hYJ:en.wikipedia.org", "title": "\u003cb\u003eParis Hilton\u003c/b\u003e - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia", "titleNoFormatting": "Paris Hilton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia", "content": "\[1\] In 2006, she released her debut album..." }, { "GsearchResultClass": "GwebSearch", "unescapedUrl": "http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0385296/", "url": "http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0385296/", "visibleUrl": "www.imdb.com", "cacheUrl": "http://www.google.com/search?q\u003dcache:1i34KkqnsooJ:www.imdb.com", "title": "\u003cb\u003eParis Hilton\u003c/b\u003e", "titleNoFormatting": "Paris Hilton", "content": "Self: Zoolander. Socialite \u003cb\u003eParis Hilton\u003c/b\u003e..." }, ... ], "cursor": { "pages": [ { "start": "0", "label": 1 }, { "start": "4", "label": 2 }, { "start": "8", "label": 3 }, { "start": "12","label": 4 } ], "estimatedResultCount": "59600000", "currentPageIndex": 0, "moreResultsUrl": "http://www.google.com/search?oe\u003dutf8\u0026ie\u003dutf8..." }}, "responseDetails": null, "responseStatus": 200})