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Earlier this month it was announced that Google will be no longer giving out keys to its SOAP based Search API.
This has some developers worried and it has me a little worried to because we have developed some cool little proprietary apps using the SOAP API. I am wondering if they are eventually going to shut off access it completely, causing many developers to re-code their apps using the Google Ajax API.
Martin Lamonica’ s article at CNet News had some interesting thoughts:
Perhaps Google is trying to influence technical debates–it also has developed GData, another data access API. But ultimately Google is likely favoring the Google Ajax Search API for business reasons–that is, they expect to see more better Web applications and more traffic through that method
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