The news has spread quickly this morning (I first heard through @ryancarson) that Google have been working on a new revamped version of their Google Search Engine. To the untrained eye, it looks pretty much the same. However, it’s much quicker, and it’s all based on AJAX-style requests…
Looking at Firebug’s net monitoring, I thought “I wonder if Google will open up an API”? It would be quite cool to have an API to request search results from, and Google returns you a load of results in well under a second (Firebug reports the requests take around 300-400ms, which is nice!). At the moment I don’t think it’s a possibility – even me just playing around brought up Google’s human checker (a captcha) that is meant to stop automated search requests…
Makes ya think though, doesn’t it?
