Opened 2 years ago
Last modified 8 months ago
#17607 assigned defect (bug)
Google blog search API shutdown
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | Future Release |
| Component: | Administration | Version: | 3.2 |
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | has-patch |
| Cc: | ocean90, info@…, aaroncampbell, mdhansen@… |
Description
I have done a search and can't see that this has already been reported.
On the wordpresss dashboard the 'incoming link search' uses google blog search API. Google has announced that this api is being shutdown as of effect 26 May 2011 (http://code.google.com/apis/blogsearch/). It will continue to work but with limited functionality (due to their deprecation policy). I therefore suggest that this be removed or use a different API.
Attachments (2)
Change History (19)
comment:4
scribu
— 2 years ago
- Milestone Awaiting Review deleted
- Resolution set to invalid
- Status changed from new to closed
Yeah, the Blog Search API (JavaScript) is deprecated, not the Blog Search Service (RSS).
comment:5
toscho
— 2 years ago
- Cc info@… added
We could change the default URI nonetheless. The Google blog search was never really good: very limited results, too much spam, and sometimes the feed is just not available (had this on two blogs in the last four weeks).
I’m using icerocket.com now everywhere which finds usually more blog links than Google.
Example:
http://www.icerocket.com/search?tab=blog&q=link%3Awordpress.org&rss=1
comment:7
westi
— 2 years ago
- Component changed from External Libraries to Administration
- Resolution invalid deleted
- Status changed from closed to reopened
- Version set to 3.2
Re-opening for further investigation.
Although the announcement only mentions the JavaScript API there are quite a few issues being reported with the feeds too.
comment:10
nacin
— 2 years ago
- Milestone changed from Awaiting Review to 3.2
- Priority changed from normal to high
So we don't ship with this.
comment:11
aaroncampbell
— 2 years ago
It looks to me like the JavaScript API is the only thing affected here and we don't use it. I'm all for leaving this as-is in 3.2 and looking to remove all default feeds from the dashboard in 3.3.
comment:12
nacin
— 2 years ago
- Milestone changed from 3.2 to Future Release
comment:14
edward mindreantre
— 16 months ago
Is there a reason for having an incoming links widget (1) that isn't under Wordpress' control - meaning it can be shut down at will - and (2) at all?
Just takes more time to load up the dashboard completely by having such a widget, I figures.
aaroncampbell
— 16 months ago
comment:15
aaroncampbell
— 16 months ago
- Cc aaroncampbell added
I'm all for removing this and letting plugins implement similar widgets for other services. As such, 17607.2.diff is just a refresh of Ryan's patch.
comment:16
scribu
— 16 months ago
- Keywords has-patch added
- Priority changed from high to normal
I saw this. However, as far as I understand it, it is the Javascript interface that is deprecated and will be disappearing, but not the blogsearch service as used by WordPress.