July 29th, 2008 | by Ben Lisbakken | published in Google Ajax API
Since the launch we’ve seen significant adoption for the AJAX Libraries API. Many developers have let us know that they would love to use our API on their secure sites using HTTPS (such as e-commerce), in fact it is the #1 request on our issue tracker….
June 12th, 2008 | by Rashmi Murthy | published in Google Ajax API
Our largest developer event of the year, Google I/O, took place May 28-29 in San Francisco. You’ll be happy to know that over 70 of the sessions, as well as the presentation slides, have now been posted.This year the event featured an entire track devo…
June 10th, 2008 | by Rashmi Murthy | published in Google Ajax API
We are pleased to announce the newest member in the AJAX Search API family – the Patent Search API. This API uses the Google Patent Search service and gives you the ability to search over 7 million patents.Using the API is easy. First load the API into…
May 27th, 2008 | by Dion Almaer | published in Google Ajax API
Google engineers spend a lot of time working on speeding up their Web applications. Performance is a key factor for our teams, and we recognize how important it is for the entire Web.When you take a look at the effort that it takes to setup work that s…
May 16th, 2008 | by Ben Lisbakken | published in Google Ajax API
I wrote a non-Javascript version of Google Maps which is designed to show how easy it is to write an application on App Engine that makes use of two new APIs from Google: The Static Maps API and the Local Search API’s REST interface. It doesn’t have f…
May 5th, 2008 | by Brandon Badger | published in Google Ajax API
With Google I/O just a few weeks away (May 28 – 29), if you haven’t already registered then now is the time. There are now more than 80 technical sessions posted. In addition to the AJAX APIs sessions that we talked about before, we’ve recently adde…
April 21st, 2008 | by Mark Lucovsky, Software Engineer | published in Google Ajax API
Three weeks ago, we quietly launched support for accessing the AJAX Search, Feed, and Language APIs from Flash, and other non JavaScript environments. Check out the relevant documentation for: Google AJAX Search APIGoogle AJAX Feed APIGoogle AJAX Langu…
April 3rd, 2008 | by Brandon Badger | published in Google Ajax API
We recently announced Google I/O, our largest developer event of the year. It takes place May 28-29 in San Francisco. The purpose of the event is to bring developers together to learn about and to discuss the latest web development technologies. Ove…
March 20th, 2008 | by Brandon Badger | published in Google Ajax API
Posted by Ben Lisbakken, Software EngineerThe AJAX Search and Feeds team is happy to announce a new member to their API family — the Language API. This new API boasts two functions, language translation and language detection – which cover 13 languag…
March 17th, 2008 | by Brandon Badger | published in Google Ajax API
Post by Yoah Bar-David & Itai Raz, Software Engineers, Tel-AvivWe are excited to launch the Google Visualization API, a new API designed for visualizing structured data. The API adds the ability to send queries to data sources and process the response….
February 8th, 2008 | by Ben Lisbakken | published in Google Ajax API
Google Gears is an API that is known for giving developers the ability to have their webpage viewable offline. However, it can also be used to speed up your website. In the case of the AJAX APIs, you can use the Google Gears local cache and client-si…
December 18th, 2007 | by Mark Lucovsky, Software Engineer | published in Google Ajax API
A few weeks ago, our team received a call from the Executive Producer of EW.com, the online extension of Entertainment Weekly Magazine. She asked if our Feed API could be used to build a module that they could configure to promote and link to their par…
December 5th, 2007 | by Mark Lucovsky, Software Engineer | published in Google Ajax API
Early this morning we turned on a highly requested feature… The AJAX Search API now supports up to 32 search results as well as pagination through result sets. I understand that this might not match everything that you have been asking for, but at th…
October 30th, 2007 | by Derek Collison, Software Engineer | published in Google Ajax API
The Google AJAX Feed API’s Slide Show got an update with the addition of a full control panel option. To see this new control panel in action, just hover your mouse over the sample below. To get all the information on the new feature, visit the Slide S…
October 14th, 2007 | by Mark Lucovsky, Software Engineer | published in Google Ajax API
This morning, we made an update to the AJAX Search API that provides you with direct access to YouTube Channels, Most Viewed Videos, Top Rated Videos, and Recently Featured Videos.As millions of you have already discovered, our insanely popular Video …