Comments on: Unrestricted APIs http://www.crunchnotes.com/2005/11/03/unrestricted-apis/ Wed, 06 Jan 2010 09:23:06 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: "Mickey Knox" http://www.crunchnotes.com/2005/11/03/unrestricted-apis/comment-page-1/#comment-156 "Mickey Knox" Fri, 11 Nov 2005 14:37:03 +0000 http://www.crunchnotes.com/?p=23#comment-156 The question comes in as one of business philosophy. The issue is one of revenue stream. Personally, I work for a newspaper that is struggling to define how it is going to utilize the web. It is unquestionably a route they want/need to go down... which is why they hired me. However, they have yet to decide WHAT they are going to do. If they give away their content for free... they fear that they will be endangering their print subscriptions. While I understand your focus in this post is about the general concept of APIs as they relate to search, it is a debate that is pertinent to any sort of "something I have, something you want" arguement. If you give the "something I have" to everybody... unrestricted... where does that leave you with respect to revenue? Returning to your topic... If Google allows everybody to use unlimited queries... why visit google.com to search when you can provide your own search, sans google ads, on your own site. The answer? Require adsense to be used wherever a Google search is rendered on an unlimited license. The question comes in as one of business philosophy. The issue is one of revenue stream. Personally, I work for a newspaper that is struggling to define how it is going to utilize the web. It is unquestionably a route they want/need to go down… which is why they hired me. However, they have yet to decide WHAT they are going to do. If they give away their content for free… they fear that they will be endangering their print subscriptions.

While I understand your focus in this post is about the general concept of APIs as they relate to search, it is a debate that is pertinent to any sort of “something I have, something you want” arguement. If you give the “something I have” to everybody… unrestricted… where does that leave you with respect to revenue? Returning to your topic…

If Google allows everybody to use unlimited queries… why visit google.com to search when you can provide your own search, sans google ads, on your own site.
The answer? Require adsense to be used wherever a Google search is rendered on an unlimited license.

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