Topic: The real threat to Microsoft and to Linux

[toasty0]

"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

[Bonk]

You mean something like this:

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

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

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

http://code.google.com/

[toasty0]

You mean something like this:

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

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

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

http://code.google.com/

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

[Bonk]

Yes, some interesting things here too:

http://labs.google.com/