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bye bye Google
Our role in the web ecosystem is to make it easy for scientists to do science, which means making it easy for them to find data, to manipulate it, and to do new things. Making it easy to find things, means giving them as many tools as possible!
The Google SOAP API was my initial motivation for our data discovery deployment. However, along with our SOAP API (which will lie at the backend), we'll have a RESTful vanilla API and probably a suitable version of OpenSearch too. So it's crying shame (via Tim Bray) that Google is backing away from their leadership position in this area. With every such step they loose a little bit of their magic, and a little bit of the good will that the community had for them - maybe I will try that other search engine after all!
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