Google Deprecates SOAP Search API

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Hey, this is almost a year old news.. and it was just the search where they deprecated soap. (-- because it was primarily accessed from a browser?)

"... this is almost a year old news.. and it was just the search where they deprecated soap...."

Old news maybe but where other companies are loosening their data, google is winding back access to theirs. I'm not sure of the motives why. But I can understand the implications. By holding back the access to raw data we are being set up for another monopoly.

Can it be true that there is no way to monitor that one important property, the position of my website in the search results for certain keywords? Granted, allowing to check for this in an automated way would probably result in a lot of requests to Google's servers, but on the other hand, people will check for it anyway, so why not let the machines do it?

my theory is that they disabled the APIs to fight SEO firms. Being able to check SERP rankings in an automated fashion would be a big help in trying to game your rankings

Soap, REST in peace. ;)

"... Soap, REST in peace. ;) ..."

First the xml api, now soap. As much as I don't like soap, the replacement ajax api is hobbled and restrictive. Evil tactics are countered with EvilAPI's ~ http://sitening.com/evilapi/

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