I've used the file_get_contents to get the google results of a string and display to the web page.
$url = "http://www.google.com/search?q=".$str;
$result = file_get_contents($url);
echo $result;
But is it possible to display only the first few results, say 5, instead of all the results ?
To limit the number of Google search results, add the parameter &num=5 to your Google query.
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