Welcome to the Google Subscribed Links Developer Guide! The Subscribed Links API enables you to create custom search results and define search keywords for triggering the results. Web users who have signed into their Google account and subscribed to your Subscribed Links can use queries that you defined to see your custom search results appear at the top of the Google results page. Your Subscribed Links can answer questions, display links to your services, provide news and status information, and calculate quantities, among other things. To get an idea of what Subscribed Links are, you can see some existing ones in the Google Subscribed Links Directory.
Audience
The developer guide is intended for folks who want to create Subscribed Links. You can create Subscribed Links with text files and only a basic understanding of XML. XML is a general-purpose markup language that people and computers can read, and it describes data in a hierarchical structure. The developer guide will show you what you need to know to create your Subscribed Links.
To help you get started, we created a wizard that you can use to create basic Subscribed Links. Once you become more familiar with the concepts, you can start creating more sophisticated Subscribed Links that do a lot of cool things, like show data, calculate and convert figures, and display results from other sites. Later, if you want to present your search results with a rich interface, you can look into using Google Gadgets.
Table of Contents
The developer's guide includes the following sections and chapters:
