Google charging for API?

I just read that Google would begin charging for its API. Did I read this correctly? and for the life of me I can't find the link.

 

I bet the nice clean API output is cutting into ad revenue if this is true.

 

There's mention of a possible adwords API charge here:
http://www.threadwatch.org/node/4771

(Google search tells all )

 

just found this ...

http://www.threadwatch.org/node/4771

it seems like its talking more about adwords api's though

... looks like that green eye beat me to it

 

The green eye sees all! MWAHAHAHA or some such

 

Google just charges if you need commercial or tons of api calls

 

I'm all for Google charging for API calls over 1,000.

Does anybody have this pricing?

 

I have heard of people getting there google api limits upped by emailing google and explaining what you are doing.

I guess I would be super suprised if they offered commercial versions of the api. its such a piece of crap. I never realized how poor googles api is until I have been using the yahoo one lately and I find it a dream compared.

 

Google's API has sucked more than normal the last couple of days ...

 

I'll ditto that....

 

If they can make money off of it (Which they sure can) I guees we will see a new release of the API soon. I wouldn't be suprised if one is ready and just waiting for the lawyers to get done with their "Terms".

 

I am 99% sure they have a commercial API already

 

Alexa offers an search engine api through amazon, it's free for the first 10,000 calls a month and 15 cents for each additional 1000 calls. To bad the Alexa crawl data sucks.

I just discovered the yahoo search api a couple of days ago, been making apps around it since, it rocks. It's free for 5000 calls a day per IP address.

 

are you talking about alexa like from there ranking data? I thought they pulled data from google?

 

alexa's ranking data all comes from their toolbar. I.e. get you and a hundred of your friend to install the toolbar and surf your sites a lot - won't get you to #1, but should make a significant difference in your Alexa ranking! ;-)

 

http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.htm...8&node=12782661&no=14256891&me=A36L942TSJ2AJA

You get DMOZ info, Alexa info and new: up to 1000 items from the dreaded ia_archiver

 

yeah thats true, and the fact is few people use it. so for me alexa sucks a little

 

I wouldn't be suprised if Alexa also grabs stats from A9 and anything else Amazon does.