Google is protecting its cash cow (search+advertising) by turning off the direct data pipe to search and requiring that you use their library to mediate. Like it or not, it’s their data after all and they can do what they want with it. What’s ironic is that we just spent God knows how many engineering dollars putting an open protocol head (SOAP) on one of our cash cows (Windows).

pretty good discussion on the google soap api shutdown, with comments from markl: The search results we provide are just as rich, if not richer than whats provided by the SOAP API.

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