Michael Fitzgerald & Ali Pasha 
Google Ajax Search API [PDF ebook] 

Use the Google Ajax Search API to integrateweb search, image search, localsearch, and other types of search intoyour web site by embedding a simple, dynamicsearch box to display search resultsin your own web pages using a fewlines of Java Script.For those who do not want to write code, the search wizards and solutions builtwith the Google Ajax Search API generatecode to accomplish common taskslike adding local search results to a Google Maps API mashup, adding videosearch thumbnails to your web site, oradding a news reel with the latest up todate stories to your blog.More advanced users can directly accessthe raw search results to heavily customizethe look and feel of results for yourweb application, and create new and innovativemashup applications.