October 21, 2002
Net services based on Google's web APIs service
A FEW months ago Google opened its database for public access and released software tools that enable programs to directly access the database. This has prompted many web programmers to launch innovative services using this huge database. NetSpeak examines some of them this week.
A Net service that is enjoyed by netizens — from the highly skilled Net professionals to its ordinary users — is the search engine Google (http://www.google.com). Apart from maintaining this effective search service, Google developers keep regularly floating new services and products. Google labs (featured in this column sometime ago), seen as a technology playground of Google's developers and users, is an example showing the proactive nature of Google's managers. Here, Google's developers post their service/product prototype on to the labs and invite interested users to provide feedback.
A Net service that is enjoyed by netizens — from the highly skilled Net professionals to its ordinary users — is the search engine Google (http://www.google.com). Apart from maintaining this effective search service, Google developers keep regularly floating new services and products. Google labs (featured in this column sometime ago), seen as a technology playground of Google's developers and users, is an example showing the proactive nature of Google's managers. Here, Google's developers post their service/product prototype on to the labs and invite interested users to provide feedback.
