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I realized Smartphone applications with Google News API. And I want to know if it's possible (I mean legal) to add advertisements on these apps ?

I used the RSS feed (the API is deprecated). In this link it says : "We invite you to make noncommercial use of Google's RSS feeds", but I'm not sure to find a good definition to noncommercial. Must it be advertising-free ?

Thank you!

Mathieu Mahé
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  • Do you mean the Google news search API, whose T&C are described here? https://developers.google.com/news-search/terms. If you mean a different one, can you provide a link to the relevant T&C doc? – Frank van Puffelen Dec 14 '12 at 22:09

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Non-commercial means that you can use it for personal use and not for business. Showing advertisements in your feed would very likely constitute non-personal use. After all: you want to show the ads so that you can make some money. That's a business.

I can also easily imagine that showing the RSS feed on a company web site or on a personal web site that shows advertisements next to the feed, is also interpreted as commercial use.

Of course I am not a lawyer (nor are most people here, given that the programmer's focus of Stack Overflow), but I tend to err on the side of caution in cases like these.

Frank van Puffelen
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In the google link it's clearly mentioned what is commercial.

Commercial use of feeds (ex. to sell a product or service, to increase traffic to your site).

So i think shows ads is not commercial.

Divyaadz
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