$url = "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/web?v=1.0&q=Paris%20Hilton" // sendRequest // note how referer is set manually $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, "http://www.yousite.com"); $body = curl_exec($ch); curl_close($ch); // following function json_decode is ready avaialable in php 5 > $json = json_decode($body);