Local Business Search and News - Terms of Service

Hi,

The Terms of Service state...

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By way of example, and not as a limitation, You agree that
when using
the Service, You will not, and will not permit your end
users or other
third parties to:

incorporate Google Search Results as the primary content on
your
website or page;
display business listings Search Results from the Google
Maps service
on any website which has the primary purpose of making
available
residential or business address listings or telephone
directory
listings;

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I would like to make available local news and local text
type search
for a business or organization via a mobile device.  Mobile
device
display area is small so you are limited as to what
information is
displayed.

I have two pages that I am unsure whether or not they
violate the
terms of service.  There are no links to these pages on the
website
but I include them here as an example.

News -
http://www.itouchmap.com/?p1=san+
francisco&submit=Show+News&t=l&r=n

Local Business Search -
http://www.itouchmap.com/
?p=San+Francisco&map=y&submit=Set+Area&t=l&r
=k

The overall intent of the website is to provide maps and
driving
directions.  The part of the terms of service that says... 
"as the
primary content on your website or [b]page[/b]".  Both
examples
incorporate the content as the primary content.  But
possibly that
portion of the terms relates to the "and will not
permit your end
users or other third parties to" portion of the
statement.  I am
unsure.  Also, being in mind that these pages will only be
linked to
when displayed from a mobile device e.g. iPod touch, iPhone,
Windows
mobile, etc.

I checked an example page from the community samples and it
incorporates the search results as the only content on the
page. A
quick check of other community samples yields the same
result (pretty
much the only content on the page).

http://babelplex.co
m/googleajaxhp

It is all so confusing...

Any help would be appreciated



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I think that the point of the statements in question is to
keep you
from launching your own search engine, in direct competition
with
Google, using Google's own stuff.  In other words, you
should utilize
the AJAX Search API in the context of a larger site that
offers at
least some of its own content.

Jeremy R. Geerdes
Effective website design & development
Des Moines, IA

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Jeremy, thank you for your response.  I think I will go
ahead and make
the two searches (news and local search) available. Also, I
would
appreciate any other responses.

Thanks,
Al

On Dec 31, 3:42 am, "jgeerdes [AJAX APIs
"Guru"]"
<jgeer...mchsi.com> wrote:
> I think that the point of the statements in question is
to keep you
> from launching your own search engine, in direct
competition with
> Google, using Google's own stuff.  In other words, you
should utilize
> the AJAX Search API in the context of a larger site
that offers at
> least some of its own content.
>
> Jeremy R. Geerdes
> Effective website design & development
> Des Moines, IA
>
> For more information or a project quote:http://jgeerdes.home.m
chsi.com
> jgeer...mchsi.com
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