Friday, April 12, 2002

Google Publicizes DMCA Takedowns [Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters] Try this google search and scroll to the bottom of the page to see an example. 1:13:40 PM     comment []

Dave Winer & Scripting Friends are buzzing like crazy about the Google SOAP API. Okay so it's pretty cool, but Google search has always been available via HTTP (with no usage limits BTW) to programs that could parse the results. But notice what a shrewd move this is for Google. Remember back when you personally switched your web searching to use google? How fickle you were, abandoning Excite or Altavista or whoever because you found something new and better. Well, it could easily happen again, couldn't it? Anyone with a cluster of indexing servers and a CS Phd. could come along with a better ranking algorithm and steal the search crown. Google's strategy: Get developers to integrate the google search programmically. Code tied to Google's API has more resistance to change than personal searching habit. Having thousands of apps out there linked against their wsdl is new competitive advantage. 11:05:56 AM     comment []

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