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Anyone had a look at the Google API. In brief, it allows anyone to write a program that can interact directly with google database. You can launch a search and do a spell check with the the google site.
Is anyone else excited about this? Anyone have any ideas how this could be used creatively? The google site lists some possible implementations:
Issuing regularly scheduled search requests to monitor the web for new information on a subject.
Performing market research by analyzing differences in the amount of information available on different subjects over time.
Searching via non-HTML interfaces, such as the command line, pagers, or visualization applications.
Creating innovative games that play with information on the web.
I wonder what kind of innovative games we could create. What about a spellcheck button on Barbelith to check any words before a post? I'm hacking about with a java blogger client at the moment and I am considering adding some google functionality to it. Perhaps automatically adding the top five links for every post title.
So what does Barbelith think? Exciting? Usable? What kind of developments are going to spring up? |
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