Google Top iFrame not appearing

Today I noticed when I Google for any word that has results, there is an iFrame above the results that results in 404 Page Not Found. I thought in the beginning it's only my slow connection timeout, but I keep getting it in both Firefox and IE7. Opera did not have that iFrame for some reason. At least I didn't see it. See below the image.


Does anybody else have the same thing?

Bye Bye Google Search API

It was never complete great, it was never carefully taken care of. It was something that's done once and left for Beta forever. Google Search SOAP API has been (quitely) taken out of service for good. No more users are accepted in the program, and pretty soon we are likely to see existing ones not able to query anymore.

The service was introduced in Beta back in 2002, and remained so with limited 1,000 query a day, and 10 results per query, until it was canceled for good. I was working with the API, I loved it although it had some stability issues. I and many others were waiting for it to go live with unlimited queries and have more flexibility. Unfortunately, this thing never happened. Tough luck for the Google Hacks author and people who bought it like me!.

Google are inviting users to use the AJAX Search API, which is apparently even more restrictive and does not allow reordering or mixing of results. Shall I agree to change to AJAX API and obey by the terms, what makes me sure the AJAX API will not be dumped in 3 years time again?

Google Answers cancellation may have been a must, as it was a wrong concept perhaps. But the search API is a strong slap in the face of programmers. Now geeks have another reason to scrap content of Google search their own way!

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IE7 optimized for Google released

When Microsoft provided the IE7 browser developer APIs, they didn't think Google would actually use it against them. Google have officially released an IE7 version optimized for Google, with Google as the default page, Google Toolbar included, and Google as the default search engine. Interested people can download it from here.

While it might sound like a bad move against Microsoft Live.com, it may be a good one however for IE7 that now Google are promoting it. It all depends on which half of the glass you are talking about.

Google Patent Search released

What's best than introducing new service, simply by summing up what services you already have. Google have their search engine, and Google Book Search technologies both applied to come up with the Google Patent Search . The new service allows people to search for the full text of U.S. patents and browse through them just as they do with Google Book Search.

Source: Google Blog

Firefox 3 Alpha out

Firefox, the famous open source web browser that caught the attention of millions, is already out with Firefox 3 Alpha for developers to test and modify. The project, called cairo, is aimed tentatively for launch in May 07, and will be solely based on Gecko 1.9. RegDeveloper have reported earlier on this project with a bit of more details.