Sneaky Google!

Google anounched that from December 5, 2006 they will no longer have their SOAP driven Search API and have replaced it with an AJAX Search API.

Why is this sneaky? Well, the SOAP API worked that everything happened behind the scenes. You sent your search terms to the API using an interface YOU designed, received the data back from the API and formatted it the way YOU wanted. A visitor never even knew that Google was doing the search. It also allowed you to mashup the data from Google with data returned from other API’s.

Now, using the AJAX API, you are giving a piece of your site to Google. You can no longer manipulate the search data returned by the API. You also do not have control over what Google do and don’t do with the data, in other words, if they decide to display sonsored links, you’ll have to live with it…

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2 Comments to "Sneaky Google!"

• Tyler said: On 12/20/2006 at 8:38 am

  I’ve been messing around with the Google Search AJAX API.. It’s lightning fast but what I’ve been wondering is why Google haven’t implemented it on the main page and these are my three conclusions.

  1. It affects their adsense for search terms.
  2. With the amount of queries they process per second their service won’t be as reliable or efficient.
  3. Related to No. 2. It might be 0.001 seconds slower

• qureyoon said: On 12/21/2006 at 3:32 am

  stii check this out then

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