6.2 The Ingenuity of Millions
The release of the Google API in April 2002 inspired hundreds of
people all over the Web to try their hand at tapping
Google's data source, including yours truly. Some of
the earliest applications were tapping into Google's
results and including them on a web page, or integrating Google
results with content management tools like Movable Type and Radio
Userland. Then as more people experimented with the API, the variety
of applications grew from the seriously useful to the amazingly
silly. (We've created a special section of the book
for the amazingly silly ones.)
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