Google: APIs which bite

Google’s decision to start charging a fee for access to the Google AdWords API comes under scrutiny from John Battelle.

Venture investors would need to be aware of how open Google will be with APIs going forward. Any startup that is working on a mashup that would take information from Google via an API would have an increased level of risk. (What if Google begins to charge for the spreadsheet API, or the maps API?)

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