Google is really an amazing and fascinating company. The general performance of her search engine may be the best among the competitors. Except this, she not only continues offering various interesting services, but also publishing the APIs of these services to user. Those open sources absolutely provide great convenience for programmers. Certainly, the other magnates such as Yahoo, Microsoft also have shown their friendliness. If we just ignore such convenience at hand, …what a pity!
Not long ago, when Dr. Wu discussed with us, he recommended me to survey some released API that may be helpful for the course. Hence I opened code.google.com and enter an interesting little world. Now Google has provided: Android- AdWords - Blogger - Deskbar - Google Desktop - Earth - Froogle - Gmail - Google App Engine- Google Book Search APIs - Google Base Data API - Groups - Maps - News - Search Appliance - Talk - Video - Web search- YouTube Data API….
For example, using Google map api, we can integrate Google's interactive maps with data on our site. Google ajax search api can help us put a Google Search box and result on our own site. You also can introduce Google checkout api to start selling on your website. If you are interested in details, please check this link: http://code.google.com/more/#products-products-base
We know that the speed of Google’s machines is very fast. The distributed architecture of Google makes the response time very short. People worldwide can visit Google without watching their time impatiently. So if Google API can be used to build your web services, you will be satisfied on the efficiency and stability.
I am making my efforts to advertise for Google.
~~~~just kidding. Anyway, it seems a fashion that everybody talks about
4 comments:
Google API is always attractive to me. I want to use them in my website. But where is my website yet...Oh! I am still dealing with the codes~ hehe, According to Alexa, Google has the second highest Traffic Rank in the world.
Ning's comment made be curious about who ranked in first place ...
I finally found the answer at: http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_sites?ts_mode=global&lang=none
Yeah, it's Yahoo!
And Facebook is in the fifth position, Myspace is seventh.
I am happy to see Baidu is in the 11th place and QQ.com in the 17th. Come on!
I think google has more energy than Yahoo does. However, after 10 years or twenty years, Google may be overtook by another new one. or even sooner
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