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Google Search API. Or "Why Google sucks".

Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 6:58 am
by onion2k
Google don't have an API to their search engine that you can query from a server any more. They've stopped issuing keys to their SOAP API, and the AJAX API specifically states you have to use the JavaScript they provide in order to access it. How much does that suck?

Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 7:03 am
by volka
it's not a non-profit company ;)

Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 8:14 am
by onion2k
Nor are MSFT or Yahoo, but their search engines both have APIs.

Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 9:47 am
by ptrpan
Dude, its google, and they can do "whatever they want".

They make the rules and we must just abide like the obedient little sheep that we are.

And yes, it totally sucks that they dont issue the keys to the API anymore.

ps. If I'm not mistakin they have stopped issueing keys for a while now. :?

Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 10:02 am
by onion2k
ptrpan wrote:ps. If I'm not mistakin they have stopped issueing keys for a while now. :?
Yes, ages ago, but I only discovered this when I needed to sign up for one today.

Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 10:06 am
by Benjamin
Theres always curl...

Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 10:45 am
by onion2k
astions wrote:Theres always curl...
Google's terms of service specifically forbid automating searches through their HTML interface. Obviously it's possible but the idea of getting on Google's bad side gives me the fear.

Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 11:59 am
by Luke
as it should :wink:

Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 2:08 pm
by Jenk
They also lose at privacy, according to http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6740075.stm

Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 3:41 pm
by superdezign
The Ninja Space Goat wrote:as it should :wink:
Hehe. :lol:

Google is virtually invincible.

Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 9:24 am
by casual1978
yes i was none too happy to find they had stopped issuing them when i realised i needed one!!!!

company motto

Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 12:33 pm
by ReverendDexter
"Do no evil" != "Do Good"

I trust google more than most other corporate entities, but that's not saying much.