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Seo Master present to you: There’s a time for everything in life: a time for playing, learning & growing up; a time for maturing, working & performing, and a time for retiring, relaxing & handing the reigns over to the next generation. This is true for products too, and this is why, six months ago, we announced our Labs program for Google Code. This program provides clear distinction between graduate developer products where you’ll find mature products with transparent deprecation policies which you can count on for the long run, and labs developer products where you can explore our newest products and get started with them early.

As we also said in that announcement, the time has come for the SOAP Search API to retire – the new generation is around, has graduated, and has largely taken over already as a better and more versatile solution for the vast majority of use cases. In the spirit of our deprecation policies, we’ve continued to support the SOAP Search API since its deprecation in 2006, but we wanted to remind you that it is finally sunsetting. That had been planned for today, but we thought we'd give the few of you still using it another week to be prepared, so we'll be shutting it down on September 7th instead.

By Eric Tholomé, Director, Developer Products2013, By: Seo Master

Seo Master present to you: By Dion Almaer, Google Developer Programs

Mark Lucovsky of the Google AJAX APIs team has written up a detailed article on how the 2008 U.S. Election site was created and implemented.

A myriad of the AJAX APIs are used here. The election news comes from:

• A News Search:
  http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/news?v=1.0&q=Barack%20Obama%20unitedstates_uselections
• A channel search for the YouTube tab:
  http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/video?v=1.0&q=ytchannel:barackobamadotcom
• And, a Custom Search Engine was created for the blog search:
  http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/web?v=1.0&q=Barack%20Obama&cx=010222979794876194725:pqldevwuapa.

Take a look, and play with the control that he talks about here:

2013, By: Seo Master

Seo Master present to you: By Ali Pasha, AJAX Search API Team

The Google AJAX Search API can be used to easily add Google Web, Local, Video, Blog, Book and News search to your website.

Today we've added yet another dimension to the API: support for Google Image Search. You can get started in no time, as the new functionality uses the same familiar search control model as the existing AJAX search controls. The search results can be displayed on your website, or mashed up to create a customized experience for your users.

Read more on the AJAX APIs blog, join the discussions in the developer forum or see an example to get started.2013, By: Seo Master

Seo Master present to you: This post is part of the Who's @ Google I/O, a series of blog posts that give a closer look at developers who'll be speaking or demoing at Google I/O. Today's post is a guest post written by Ross Boucher, co-founder of 280 North.

When we set out to build 280 Slides, we wanted to create an application that made no concessions: something that felt as interactive as the desktop experience, while leveraging all the benefits of being online. We coined the term "desktop-class applications" as a way to describe our vision for what web apps should be. We also knew it wasn't enough to just recreate a desktop presentation tool pixel for pixel. We wanted to do something new, and to truly take advantage of being a web based solution.


The key to having a great presentation is having great media. A picture that helps tell the story with infinitely more clarity, or that just helps tell a good joke. A movie that shows a demo of your cool new widget that everyone's going to buy. Not all presentations, and not all individual slides will work this way, but the kind of in-person, captivating speech that Steve Jobs would enjoy relies almost entirely on images. And, of course, an engaging presenter.

So, if having great media is key to having a great presentation, it's important to be able to find great media for your presentation. Not all of us have an art department on hand, so we made this idea central to 280 Slides, and we did it with a lot of help from Google APIs.


If you take a look at what we call the Media inspector, you'll see we have top level choices for pictures, movies, and shapes. Both the pictures and movies tabs let you search popular web services to find the perfect media for your presentation.

When you search for a picture, we send a request to our server, which then sends out requests to several web services. Google's AJAX Search APIs actually enable us to perform server side searches as well, thanks to the Flash and Other Non-JavaScript section of the API. On the server side, this lets us send requests to Google and Flickr at the same time, and convert the responses to a consistent data format.


We're excited about finding other ways to integrate with Google services as well. For example, we hope to eventually enable publishing a presentation directly to YouTube, and use Google to log in to our service rather than having to create a new username.

We're also planning on changing the way we interact with the Google APIs. In addition to 280 Slides, our company makes a web application framework called Cappuccino. The media integration in 280 Slides has been a huge hit with our users, so we plan to build this feature directly into Cappuccino and let anyone building a web app integrate media searching with little effort. This means changing our approach from server-side to client side aggregation using JSONP. The AJAX APIs, YouTube APIs, and all the other APIs we use are now available by using JSON with padding. JSONP lets us work around the browser's same-origin policy to better integrate with third-party web services without proxying through a server.

280 North is going to be at Google I/O on May 27-28 to show off 280 Slides and how we integrate with the Google APIs. We'll also be showing off the beginnings of integrating this in Cappuccino which should be interesting to JavaScript developers. We hope you'll stop by the Sandbox!

If you want to learn more about how 280 Slides uses Google APIs, check out these Google Code videos with one of the co-founders:



Guest Post by Ross Boucher, 280 North2013, By: Seo Master

Seo Master present to you: By Dion Almaer, Google Developer Programs

The AJAX API team just posted about using Flash and the server side to access the AJAX APIs.

This is very exciting, as it now allows you the developer to access not only Google Web Search results, but also query video, images, news, local, and other search functions. Also, this covers the AJAX Feed API which means you can get access to feeds in a normalized manner, and the new AJAX Language API to do translations and language detection.

If you step back, you can see this as a Google REST API, and some of you have wondered how it compares to the SOAP API.

I got to go to the horses mouth, Mark Lucovsky (team lead for the AJAX APIs), to discuss what this new access point is all about, and you may be a little surprised with the content.

We discuss the fact that this has actually been running for quite some time, but we now have clarified it as an official end point for your usage. This also means that it has thorough documentation, which was important as Mark talks about how some people have been using the API incorrectly.

Mark clarifies the terms of use, and you come out of this in the knowledge that his team has been attacking very different problems to the original SOAP API team. He has been ruthlessly practical, as you will understand as he talks about the problems his team are solving, and the breadth of sites that are using these APIs, including some very big names.

Enough of me talking, let's listen to Mark:



Hear more from Mark on the AJAX APIs, Vadim on accessing the APIs outside of AJAX, and Derek on advanced development using AJAX Apis at Google I/O.2013, By: Seo Master

Seo Master present to you: Posted by DeWitt Clinton, Google Developer Programs

The AJAX Search team launched a new API this morning that introduces a subtle, yet powerful new way to integrate syndicated content into your web applications.

The Google AJAX Feed API provides functionality that allows webpages to retrieve any public RSS or Atom feed via a simple JavaScript method call. The data can be retrieved in either JSON or XML format, enabling web applications to easily mash up and consume the contents of public feeds. Some of the best content on the web is being syndicated over RSS and Atom channels; this API should help web developers quickly integrate rich external data sources into their web applications, while leveraging Google to do the the heavy lifting of crawling, caching, and content normalization.

Read more on the AJAX APIs blog, join the discussions in the developer forum, or see an example to get you started.2013, By: Seo Master

Seo Master present to you: It's time for another Google Narrative, highlighting a Google AJAX Search API developer, Chirag Mehta.

Chirag is developer in St. Petersburg, Florida who got started coding on a ZX Spectrum almost twenty years ago and has dabbled in graphics, animation, databases, ERP/CRMs, and productivity apps. He is currently working as an IT director and is in a graduate program in Technology Management at University of Tampa. He co-founded Chime.TV in 2007 and Sched.org in 2008. His favorite area of development is simple web utilities. Chirag and his wife love animals and when he's not coding or studying, he is either kayaking or playing with their pets.Q: Tell me about how you used Google AJAX Search API for Wiki Search and Drop Search and how you came up with the ideas.

A: My wife's currently in medical school and constantly doing searches online for medical terms. Wikipedia offered tons of information but she found their search feature to be insufficient for her needs. 90% of the time, you have no idea what you're searching for or guessing at it - it doesn't do anything to help you out. I wanted to help my wife have a faster, more dynamic experience so I brainstormed how to build a XML-type of search feature, similar to Google Search Suggest, while you were on Wikipedia. (It also helped that I'd always found Wikipedia interesting and researched databases that used it as a source of information.) That also led me to start looking at implementation options and of them all, AJAX Search seemed the easiest to integrate in a quick manner. Instead of taking two weeks to research documentation and then implement with other APIs, it took about an hour with Google AJAX Search. Also, I had worked with many Google APIs on other projects before, but the Google AJAX API was the best. The speed was amazing!

The idea for creating Drop Search came soon after fiddling with more Google AJAX search documentation. My implementation gives the everyday person without a programming background the ability to add a customized search engine to any site. It's code that you can copy and paste into your application and customize for your own needs using CSS, which I did for my own blog. A friend of mine at Rutgers University saw what I did and wanted the same type of feature for their professional development site so I released the code that I created to everyone on my projects page.

Q: Describe any obstacles you had with implementation.

A: There were none. Actually I had a couple of questions at first but I looked at the forums and got the answer fairly quickly. They were around legal issues - Am I allowed to query as I type? Is it legal that I'm doing this with Wiki search? I wish legal terms were much clearer on Google Code. I had some assumptions, only to find out they were recommendations rather than requirements. I do have to say that the documentation on Google Code is perfect. One minute you're reading documentation, the next you're in the forums reading about other developers' experiences. Help pages are broken down into every bit so it makes coding a cakewalk. It's a really good experience compared to other sites.

Q: Can you provide any tips for other developers using Google AJAX Search API?

A: Before you try to build something, find out if Google already has. Google will build 98% of your needs on the back end, leaving you 2% of the work to focus on making your user interface exactly what you need for the front end. Also, another tip... listen to your wife's complaints.Thanks for your time Chirag! We love hearing from developers in our community about inspiring stories, so if you have something you'd like to share, visit our online submission form. Or better yet, come to Google I/O and tell us your story in person.

By Christine Songco, Google Code Team2013, By: Seo Master

Seo Master present to you: Posted by Dion Almaer, Google Developer Programs

We are very fortunate at Google to have amazing people come in to speak to us on many interesting topics. We record these talks and make them available on Google Video.

We recently added a feature on the Google Code website that displays recent videos from our tech talk series.

You could do this directly using the Video Bar or the Video Search Control which have wizards to make implementation trivial.

In our case, we wanted to make the bottom right portlet fit in with the look and feel of the rest of the site, so we decided to go a little more low level.

The the AJAX Search API the actually act of searching happens in the Searchers set of JavaScript classes. We used the GvideoSearch class which extends the base GSearch functionality to work with Google Video.

The resulting code was simple. At its heart we:

• Told the searcher to give us the most recent searches via videoSearch.setResultOrder(GSearch.ORDER_BY_DATE) (as opposed to the default 'most relevant' setting)
• Told the searcher that we would handle generating the HTML ourselves via videoSearch.setNoHtmlGeneration()
• Do the work of creating the HTML from the results after the results come back. We track this with videoSearch.setSearchCompleteCallback()

When the search returns the results are put into a results[] array. These results are GvideoResult JavaScript objects with properties that we can then query, such as the published date, content snippet, title, duration, video URL, and the thumbnail image.

We used this to dynamically create the HTML and then inserted it into the DOM with innerHTML.

var result = videoSearch.results[x];
var nicerDate = new Date();
nicerDate.setTime(Date.parse(result.published ));

var dateFormatted = (nicerDate.getMonth()+1) + '/' + nicerDate.getDate()
+ '/' + nicerDate.getFullYear();

output += '<div class="featured"><div class="project"><div '
+ 'class="screenshot"><a href="' + result.url
+ '" rel="nofollow"><img src="' + result.tbUrl + '" alt="'
+ result.titleNoFormatting + ' Screenshot" width="129" height="110" '
+ '/></a></div><div class="info"><div '
+ 'class="name"><a href="' + result.url + '" rel="nofollow">'
+ result.titleNoFormatting + '</a></div><div '
+ 'class="author videodateformat">Recorded on ' + dateFormatted
+ '</div><div class="duration">Duration: '
+ parseInt( result.duration / 60) + ' mins</div></div><p '
+ 'class="videosnippet">' + result.content
+ '</p></div></div>';

A bit ugly, I know. If we wanted a cleaner approach, we could have used DOM methods directly, or we could have created this using a JavaScript Template package.

What is important to know, is that the AJAX Search API is a powerful beast. On the one hand you can run a wizard and get results that you can copy and paste onto your web pages. On the other hand you can get low level and query the backend which returns simple JSON for you to manipulate.

The AJAX Search team seems to release something new on just about a weekly basis, so subscribe to the Google AJAX Search API Blog to follow along.2013, By: Seo Master

Seo Master present to you: Posted by Dion Almaer, Google Developer Programs

Eric Enge of Stone Temple Consulting interviewed our own Mark Lucovsky about the AJAX Search API that Mark and his team created.

The interview provides detailed answers to questions such as:

• What we learned from the Maps API
• How the AJAX Search API came about, and why we built it
• How the API aims at a broad spectrum of users, from lifelong programmers to the casual blogger
• How the API can be used to perform searches, get back JSON
results, and display them however you like

• What the terms of use actually mean
• Why the team used JSON output.

The interview also includes interesting examples of real-world users, such as VisualDxHealth, and dispels a few common myths about the AJAX Search API.

Is there anything else that you would like to know about the APIs? Join us on the AJAX Search forums.2013, By: Seo Master

Seo Master present to you: By Ben Lisbakken, Developer Programs Engineer

For me, documentation isn't always enough to learn about APIs; I need examples that I can play with. That's why I started a fun project recently--a tool for teaching developers how to use Google's JavaScript APIs: the AJAX API Playground. I have been working on this in my 20% time and today I am proud to announce that we are launching the AJAX API Playground as the official way that Google will show JavaScript samples!

The AJAX API Playground is currently loaded with over 170 samples for 8 Google JavaScript APIs (Maps, Search, Feeds, Calendar, Visualization, Language, Blogger, Libraries and Earth) that you can edit and run to help you explore what Google's APIs have to offer. There are also save and export features. The save feature allows you to hold onto an edited sample so you can continue working on it later, while export lets you modify a sample and publish the code to a permanent url.

As the AJAX API Playground is built on App Engine, you can create your own App Engine instance to show off your code samples. The code is open sourced under an Apache 2.0 license and uses several open source libraries and tools, including jQuery, jQuery UI, YUI Compressor, and CodeMirror. You can find the code on Google Project Hosting and learn about adding samples on the project wiki.

Stay tuned for more samples for more APIs. Enjoy!2013, By: Seo Master