Right on the heels of the XML-RPC article I posted earlier today, DevShed has a new article talking about one of the coolest things to come out of Google since it was invented - the Google API. In Using The Google Web APIs With PHP, the author details how to get everything installed that you might need to access the API, including the SOAP PEAR class or the NuSOAP class that they suggest. They show you how to use all of the various functions that the Google API allows: doGoogleSearch, doGetCachedPage, doSpellingSuggestion. Between these examples and some of the creativity that has already been seen out of this project, coupled with the ease and speed of the PHP language, I think that some of the more powerful Google-using tools out there will be made with this combination. And, then, someday, you could say that it all started here...