Yeah Google is very smart , but know what, they just lost another loyal
customer, i moved to Yahoo search API, although i prefer Google as an
engine, and although Google API (the SOAP one not the AJAX) had easier
integration with my C#.NET applications, but Google made me no other
choice to take,
and i think if Google continued to follow its marketers instead of
being in the side of the customer it will LOOOOOOOOOSE
why?
Because they are not providing softwares (such as Micro$oft) they are
providing services, and the reason that they grew up very quickly was
that they were very clever in innovating Win-Win relationships with
their clients, once they start to break that, i don't think they are
going to prevail much.
A disappointed, previously loyal Google user
Dominick wrote:
> I keep seeing people ask for more than 8 results and pagination.
> Please keep in mind that it is not a technical issue why Google hasn't
> added this feature...it's a sound business decision on Google's part.
> The AJAX Search API is designed to ultimately drive more traffic to
> Google. By giving sites the ability to display every single result
> would cause other users to visit Google less often.
> But searching Google is searching Google, right? NO!!!!! Ad revenue is
> Google's bread and butter. Now, of course many of you would like to
> add your own adsense account to the results displayed via the AJAX API
> forcing Google into sharing its revenue with a site that has the
> ability to show all the results thus eliminating the need for users to
> venture to Google.com where they keep 100% of the ad revenue.
> Google is too smart of a compnay to create a bunch of mini-googles that
> could ultimately drive traffic away from the parent site.
