{"id":1332,"date":"2016-01-21T15:23:12","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T15:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.agencyplatform.com\/blog\/?p=1332"},"modified":"2019-09-03T12:18:32","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T12:18:32","slug":"several-google-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.agencyplatform.com\/blog\/several-google-search\/","title":{"rendered":"Several Google Search APIs to retire in February, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google, in its efforts to clean-up its Search Results, has recently <a href=\"http:\/\/googledevelopers.blogspot.com\/2016\/01\/retirement-of-certain-google-search-apis.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">announced<\/a> that it will bid adieu to several exhausted Search APIs in the month of February, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>This new development means that five of Google&#8217;s major Search APIs, which includes Patent API, News API, Blog API, Video API, and Image API will cease to exist from next month.<\/p>\n<p>Google reported this matter well in advance in <a href=\"http:\/\/googledevelopers.blogspot.com\/2011\/06\/spring-cleaning-for-some-of-our-apis.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">2011<\/a>, that it would remove those deprecating Search APIs from its system, after supporting them for a period of three years.<\/p>\n<p>And if you do feel saddened by this development, then there isn&#8217;t much that you can do. 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