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Google APIs

Sure, everyone is pointing to the new Google Web APIs. What will people really do with them? Is search data the most useful kind of data? Probably not. Querying into Amazon's database, or IMDB, or something like that would be more useful, perhaps. It almost seems like the spelling correction call is the really useful part of this API right now. I don't have a pressing need for adding search capabilities in other applications. Google's interface is already pretty great for that. Boxes showing top search results seem rather useless, or at least a little too egocentric for the examples I have seen so far. But spellcheckers... the world would be a better place with more spellcheckers in it. Like in blogging software.

So I downloaded the developer's kit. Put it on the list of projects I probably won't get to for a while.