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Google Relaunches Its Search API - Though not with a Vengeance
Hamlet Batista, positively one of the most interesting bloggers in contemporary search, has discovered that Google’s search API is back in action, though not exactly with a vengeance:
It’s now called the University Research Program for Search and brings with it the following limitations:
- Â The research program is open to faculty members and their research teams at colleges and universities, by registration only.
- The program may be used exclusively for academic research, and research results must be made available to the public.
- The program must not be used to display or retrieve interactive search results for end users.
- The program may be used only by registered researchers and their teams, and access may not be shared with others.
For most projects, except perhaps the least sophisticated, the currently available Ajax API is more or less useless and complaints about.
Ok, so it’s Google the Web Apartheid company’s sole call, which is why Hamlet poses the question how much SEOs would be willing to cough up for the privilege. Frankly, we’re surprised it hasn’t happened yet as we were expecting it years ago. But maybe our do-no-evil epitomes of virtue are simply too scared of their competitors’ potentially taking a thorough peek at their database as well?
Full story: Google brings back the Search API … Sort of
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