Google Kills Their Search API
"As of December 5, 2006, we are no longer actively supporting the SOAP Search API. We encourage you to use the AJAX Search API instead."
Google decided to make 2006 to be the year of surprise product killing announcements (Google Answers ended just a couple of days ago).
There are more long-term implications contained in this latest move, however; just as the killing off of Google Answers might be a permanent warning sign for future communities Google wants to assemble, the killing off of this important API might be a permanent warning sign that sometimes, Google isn’t committed to its API-using developers... which might hurt the acceptance of present or future Google APIs.
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