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I am first trying the standard web search, image below, which returns 476 results

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I have the custom Google ruby api client and have the custom search engine and api key setup.

This is my query

client = Google::APIClient.new(application_name: 'Foo',
                                     application_version: 1,
                                     :authorization => nil)
        search = client.discovered_api('customsearch')
        result = client.execute(
            search.cse.list,
            'key' => 'xxxxx.xxxx_xxxxx_mykey',
            'q' => 'chateau palmer',
            'siteSearch' => 'nytimes.com',
            'siteSearchFilter' => 'i',
            'cx' => 'my_custom_Search key'
        )
        total =  result.data.queries.request.collect {|i| i['totalResults']}

The result i get are completely different in count, what can be the reason?

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This has been answered in another question and by Google.

your results are unlikely to match those returned by Google Web Search, for several reasons:

  • Even if a custom search engine is configured to search the entire web, it’s designed to emphasize results from your own sites.
  • Your custom search engine doesn’t include Google Web Search features such as Oneboxes, real-time results, universal search, social feaures, or personalized results.
  • If your custom search engine includes more than ten sites, the results may be from a subset of our index and may differ from the results of a 'site:' search on Google.com.

Also, of other note, there are a great deal of flags that you can set such as location and language that the web version determines which have to be set in your code when using the API.

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