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ChapterÂ 3.Â Third-Party Google Services

Hacks #36-40

Hereâs a nice Zen question for you: is Google a search engine or a technology?

Weird question, huh? Isnât Google just a search engine? Doesnât it provide the ability to search several different data collections? Or is it more? Isnât it a technology that other people can apply to their own search purposes?

Thanks to the Google API and good old-fashioned ingenuity, itâs easy for third-party developers to take Googleâs technology and develop them into applications that have nothing to do with Google outside of the application of their technology.

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