iOS: Display Google Search Results in UIWebView without API

Question

I have an iOS app where a user can select a keyword, and the app will display search results from Google via an in-app UIWebView.

e.g. A user selects my term name, I construct this URL: https://www.google.com/search?q=my+term+name, and open that URL in a UIWebView.

Is this against Google's terms of service? Do I need to include any sort of authentication credentials in the URL?

Thanks.

Answer 1

If you are just displaying a google web page, then that's fine. All you've done is construct a URL and display the results. If you were parsing / scraping the results, then you'd have a legal issue. If it were a problem services such as lmgtfy would not be legal.