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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, but.... by Restil · · Score: 1, Troll

    That's the beautiful thing about a site that doesn't fund themselves through the use of banner ads. It doesn't MATTER if you access their content through the main website, an affiliate like yahoo, or an api interface.

    -Restil

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