Google article - eyes on web services

[jeremy goodrich]

Just found an article on Yahoo! News [news.yahoo.com] about how Google is eyeing web services as a new frontier of their business.

I know we've talked about this before, and Brett suggested at one time it would be a nice lead into micropayments...but I guess since I have yet to see anything *that* novel from their API so far, I wonder if anything truly 'innovative' will be made with it.

Does anybody know if Google has released any numbers on applications being created with their API?

[ciml]

There will be some good PR (sorry...) if they do list some of the novel uses.

I'd vote for the TouchGraph app. Very nice.

[shewhoguards]

I already found one, but I'm not sure if I can list the URL due to forum policy (mods? let me know;-) Basically, it's a WHOIS thingy where you can searh on a word to find all registered domains with that word in. EG a search of widget could bring you [widget.com,...] [greenwidget.com,...] [widgetstuff.co.uk......]

It's a cool toy to play with *happy*

[shewhoguards]

And after seeing a few referrels in my stats from people peeking at my profile today.. I should probably add that I don't actually own the whois site ;-) I just stumbled across it and spent a happy hour playing with it. The site in my profile is just my hobby site;-) If you want the URL for the whois site, sticky me

*goes to check her sticky mail is turned on*