The Code

Save the following code to a file called Googly.java:

// Googly.java
// Bring in the Google SOAP wrapper.
import com.google.soap.search.*;
import java.io.*;
public class Googly {
  // Your Google API developer's key.
  private static String googleKey = "insert key here"; 
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    // Make sure there's a Google query on the command line.
    if (args.length != 1) {
      System.err.println("Usage: java [-classpath classpath] Googly <query>");
      System.exit(1);
    }
    // Create a new GoogleSearch object.
    GoogleSearch s = new GoogleSearch( );
    try {
    
      s.setKey(googleKey);
      s.setQueryString(args[0]); // Google query from the command-line
      s.setMaxResults(10);
      // Query Google.
      GoogleSearchResult r = s.doSearch( );
      // Gather the results.
      GoogleSearchResultElement[] re = r.getResultElements( );
      
      // Output.
      for ( int i = 0; i < re.length; i++ ) {
     System.out.println(re[i].getTitle( ));
     System.out.println(re[i].getURL( ));
     System.out.println(re[i].getSnippet( ) + "\n");
      }
    
    // Anything go wrong?
    } catch (GoogleSearchFault f) {
      System.out.println("GoogleSearchFault: " + f.toString( ));
    }
  }
  
}

Be sure to drop in your own Google developer's key in place of insert keyhere, like so:

// Your Google API developer's key.
private static String googleKey = "12BuCK13mY5h0E/34KN0cK@ttH3Do0R
";