In den kommen drei Jahren sollen laut http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2011/05/spring-cleaning-for-some-of-our-apis.html eine Reihe von APIs dichtgemacht werden:
- Translate
- Blog Search
- Books Data
- Alte Books JavaScript API
- Image Search
- News Search
- Patent Search
- Alte Safe Browsing API
- Transliterate
- Video Search
- Virtual Keyboard
Das alles fand ich nicht so tragisch, aber Translate ist heftig in der Diskussion, und Google wird das wohl noch einmal überdenken müssen. Die Google-Antwort (bisher) darauf:
This was a tough decision for us to make; we’re sorry to hear that it’s been a tough one for you to read. Thank you all for your comments, and for reminding us of the passion and energy that you bring to building great products that use our APIs. We launch a lot of APIs, many of them experimental or in Labs. This round of spring cleaning is designed to let us do a better job by focusing more effort on fewer APIs, so that you can continue to count on them. Deprecating the Translate API was the hardest choice for us to make — we’re excited about the global web, and about helping developers and webmasters anywhere reach audiences everywhere. We continue to invest in our Translate offerings, including the Google Translate web element. But the Translate API was subject to extensive abuse — the vast majority of usage was in clear violation of our terms. The painful part of turning off this API is that we recognize it affects some legitimate usage as well, and we’re sorry about that; we hope that our other offerings will cover many of those legitimate use cases.
We are listening, and we really appreciate your thoughtful responses to this post.
Nicht weiter gepflegt werden weiterhin:
Dafür kommen neue APIs dazu:
- Discovery Service
- Tasks API
- Books API
- Pagespeed Online API
- Places API (now generally available)
- Prediction API (now generally available)
- Fusion Tables API (additional feeds)
In 4 Tagen nach der Ankündigung beschäftigen sich über 150 Kommentare mit den Endscheidungen. Ein Kommentar dazu bringt es vielleicht auf den Punkt: “Your new APIs are either pure bullshit or specially aimed to promote your own affiliates.”
Eine Übersicht aller Google-APIs gibt http://code.google.com/intl/de-DE/more/.