O'Reilly Radar > Google Deprecates Their SOAP Search API

O'Reilly Radar > Google Deprecates Their SOAP Search API: "Update #2: Tim writes: On the other hand, SOAP has always been a political football shaped by big companies who were seeking to use it to turn web services back into a controllable software stack. (I remember the first web services summit we did, where a Microsoft developer who I won't name admitted that SOAP was made so complex partly because 'we want our tools to read it, not people.') And it could be that innovation in web services is what we need. However, backwards compatibility is worth preserving, at least for a notice period so people can make an orderly transition. However, it sounds like they are doing that."