Google discontinues its “SOAP Search API,” as the new generation “Google AJAX Search API” has largely taken over already as a better and more versatile solution. “In the spirit of our deprecation policies, we’ve continued to support the SOAP Search API since its deprecation in 2006, but we wanted to remind you that it is finally sunsetting. That had been planned for today, but we thought we'd give the few of you still using it another week to be prepared, so we'll be shutting it down on September 7th instead,” announced Google Code blog .