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Off Topic => Engineering => Topic started by: toasty0 on September 09, 2005, 01:02:22 am

Title: The real threat to Microsoft and to Linux
Post by: toasty0 on September 09, 2005, 01:02:22 am

"While it presents itself as a web interface to most people, Google could just as well present itself as a programmable interface, which means that you can start writing software that gets information through the eyes, sort of speak, of Google," Cerf said. "That creates a vocabulary, if you like, that programmable systems can use in order to take advantage of what Google is capable of doing with its gigantic database."

http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=170701688

Title: Re: The real threat to Microsoft and to Linux
Post by: Bonk on September 09, 2005, 08:07:20 am

You mean something like this:

http://www.google.com/intl/xx-piglatin/   ;D

or http://www.google.com/intl/xx-bork/  :D ?

Seriously though, I think this is the kind of thing you are talking about?:

http://code.google.com/

Title: Re: The real threat to Microsoft and to Linux
Post by: toasty0 on September 09, 2005, 09:25:42 am

Quote from: Bonk on September 09, 2005, 08:07:20 am

You mean something like this:

[url]http://www.google.com/intl/xx-piglatin/[/url]   ;D

or [url]http://www.google.com/intl/xx-bork/[/url]  :D ?

Seriously though, I think this is the kind of thing you are talking about?:

[url]http://code.google.com/[/url]

I suspect those APIs are the tip of the ice berg (to beat that clcihe one more time)

Title: Re: The real threat to Microsoft and to Linux
Post by: Bonk on September 09, 2005, 09:30:58 am

Yes, some interesting things here too:

http://labs.google.com/