The Google Web APIs were a free SOAP service for doing Google searches so that developers could use the results in almost any way they wanted. Launched April 11, 2002; shut down December 5, 2009 — it lived 7 years. One of 10 Google products killed in 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20021105033319/http://www.google.com/apis/ Data: Killed by Google (killedbygoogle.com, MIT).