Google blog search API shutdown

[jcnetsys]

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.

[duck_]

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.

[scribu]

Yeah, the Blog Search API (JavaScript) is deprecated, not the Blog Search Service (RSS).

[toscho]

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

[scribu]

Looks nice, but would it be able to serve 14% of the internet? :)

[westi]

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.

[nacin]

So we don't ship with this.

[aaroncampbell]

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.

[seolife]

Nothing.

[ryan]

Remove Incoming Links widget

[edward mindreantre]

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]

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.

[MikeHansenMe]

+1 for moving this to a plugin.

[ocean90]

Removed in 3.8.