Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 19th Dec 2006 22:16 UTC
Google has quietly axed the web services API to its eponymous search engine. The stealth move was made without any announcement, but visitors to the page now receive a blunt message, backdated to 5 December, advising them that the SOAP API is no longer supported.
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2006-06-02
This really relates to the earlier item on Web 2.0 (forgive the technical ignorance if it ain't) and its viability, and also the viability of stepping up to the network and new ways of describing and providing material from library 'silos' by vendors. Not long ago Google also axed Google Answers - is this the way it's going to be? New Web 2.0 services are increasingly ephemeral as the major commercial players switch tracks as the revenue stream needs a different way of being channeled over time? Who says the library and its 'traditional' way of ordering and classifying information is dead? I think what some need to remember is that certain universities and their libraries (Oxbridge) have been around longer than most nation states, and certainly longer than the likes of Google. It may now be a better option for libraries to open up their OPACs to the Web via LibX rather than through Google Scholar...