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Googlepedia: The Ultimate Google Resource, Third Edition
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Googlepedia: The Ultimate Google Resource, Third Edition

by Michael Miller
October 2008
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
744 pages
17h 10m
English
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Understanding Google’s APIs

As noted, API is a synonym for Application Programming Interface. As the name implies, this is an interface used in the programming of applications. More precisely, a Google API is an interface between the application you develop and a specific Google service.

Note

To use any of Google’s APIs, you must first register on the Google Code site (code.google.com). When you create your Google API account, Google issues you a personal license key; this license key must be integrated into your code so that every time your application queries a Google database, the license key is part of the query string.

For example, the Google Custom Search API lets you tie into Google’s main search index. That lets you add web ...

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