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Google to Offer API

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the now-thats-smooth dept.

philipx writes "From the ruby-talk archives here's a little interesting snippet from a post you have to check out: "Here at Google, we're about to start offering an API to our search-engine, so that people can programmatically use Google through a clean and clearly defined interface, rather than have to resort to parsing HTML." It goes on talking about SOAP and I think this is utterly cool."

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  1. Re:Cool! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Had the API come out two years ago, I would have spent a lot less time on that thing.

    Had you enough sense to use Perl, you would have spent a lot less time on that thing. What crack smoking teacher would force someone to do string manipulation in Java...sadistic.

  2. Re:Since when do we like Google? by Rayonic · · Score: 3, Funny

    FYI:

    We like them Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
    We love them Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.
    And we alternate Sundays.

    Get with the program.

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  3. OpenGoogle? by VistaBoy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Are they going to release the source code to the search engine itself? That would be REALLY cool...

    We can finally find out how to implement their PigeonRank system...

  4. Google topic icon by Mr.+Neutron · · Score: 3, Funny

    Perhaps a farmer picking apart a haystack, one piece at a time.

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  5. Soap is good by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yes, it would be a very good thing if Google employees used soap. That's pretty disgusting if they don't.

  6. These guys drive me crazy. by fm6 · · Score: 5, Funny

    The keep adding groundbreaking features to their products and throwing them out as if it were no big deal. Don't they know they're supposed to beat the PR drum every time one of their engineers burps? Bunch of commies!