This is very
exciting, as it now allows you the developer to access not only Google Web Search results, but
also query video, images, news, local, and other search functions. Also, this covers the AJAX
Feed API which means you can get access to feeds in a normalized manner, and the new AJAX
Language API to do translations and language detection.
If you step
back, you can see this as a Google REST API, and some of you have wondered how it compares to
the SOAP API.
I got to go to the horses mouth, Mark Lucovsky (team lead
for the AJAX APIs), to discuss what this new access point is all about, and you may be a
little surprised with the content.
We discuss the fact that this has
actually been running for quite some time, but we now have clarified it as an official end
point for your usage. This also means that it has thorough documentation, which was important
as Mark talks about how some people have been using the API incorrectly.
Mark clarifies the terms of use, and you come out of this in the knowledge that his team
has been attacking very different problems to the original SOAP API team. He has been
ruthlessly practical, as you will understand as he talks about the problems his team are
solving, and the breadth of sites that are using these APIs, including some very big
names.
Enough of me talking, let's listen to Mark:
Hear more from Mark on
the AJAX APIs, Vadim on accessing the APIs outside of AJAX, and Derek on advanced development
using AJAX Apis at Google I/O.
