Expert Texture
The blogged wandering of Robert W. Anderson
December 21, 2006 at 2:18 am
· Filed under Web 2.0
Two guys who know a thing or two about web services and APIs think the new Google Search API is a step backwards. I agree.
My guess is that some high up at Google thinks of it as a step forwards. Perhaps someone asked the question:
Why are we providing search results into arbitrary applications, when in fact, we are in the business of serving ads on Web pages?
An AJAX-only API is a fine way to do just that; but like Don Box says:
No matter how you define “web service,” I don’t think this newest offering qualifies.
I’m hoping this is just an anomaly and not a trend, lest we all fall back into the world of opaque/closed protocols.
Google doesn’t have to provide open and interoperable APIs to the world; but, I bet others will.
Tags: ajax, APIs, Google, Search, SOAP, Web-Services, XML
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Some folks just released EvilAPI, which supports Google’s old SOAP API, but uses good old-fashioned screenscraping (off of Google) to do it.
Not sure how legal it is, but it’s a funny way to keep using Google’s deprecated API.
http://evilapi.com/
[...] I posted the other day about the deprecation of the Google API. My take: good for the Google; bad for the gaggle (i.e., the application developers). Fun to talk about, but there are pragmatic solutions to this. Something to be scared of? No. [...]
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