Lots of new Google news…

Google and NASA are coming together in a partnership to open up the huge amount of data collected by NASA to all users on the Internet. This will probably lead to need possibilities for Google Maps and Google Earth in the future such as 3D views. You can find more detailed information here

NASA’s press release >>

Not really new news but the support for Google’s SOAP Search API  has been discontinued as of December 5th, 2006. The documentation will be available online for developers in the future though. Google is recommending the use of the AJAX search API for the future. The problem for developers with this solution is that the two APIS implement very different approaches to the delivery of data. The SOAP API uses a very small query which returns all search results which can used and adapted in any fashion the developer wants. This gives the developer many more opportunities.

The Google AJAX Search API shows the complete search environment and is supposedly a lot slower (I will have to test this).

Google’s Code Project Hosting is growing better now that one is able to download actual project code from the page. 100MB can be uploaded to the site, every file can have it’s own description and up to 3 tags in the WIKI-like environment. So it is ready to start to “fight” against SourceForge, we’ll have to wait and see what happens in the near future!