AMAZON VS. GOOGLE: A COMPARISON

Amazon vs. Google: A Comparison

Amazon vs. Google: A Comparison

Google provides a SOAP-based API for accessing its resources in a model for Web services. The Google API can be used to programmatically access several different services, including executing a search on Google and receiving the results, requesting a spelling suggestion, and fetching a cached page.

Just like Amazon, in order to use the Google Web API, you must create a Google account and receive a key that is passed with each request. Google provides information on its APIs at www.google.com/apis/index.html. Like Google, Amazon, one of the ...