Google’s widgets are a great way to get the functionality you’re looking for without writing any code, but sometimes there’s a need for a little more control and flexibility with layout, design, and information you want to present. Kris Hadlock explains the steps that are necessary to use the RESTful interface provided through the Google Ajax Search API in order to create a custom JavaScript blog widget.
The Google Ajax Search API is a powerful JavaScript library that provides default widgets; these widgets can easily be embedded into any web page. Google’s widgets are a great way to get the functionality you’re looking for without writing any code, but sometimes there’s a need for a little more control and flexibility with layout, design, and information you want to present. Google provides a RESTful interface and refers to it as an offering for Flash and other non-JavaScript environments, but with a tiny bit of code we can access this interface remotely with JavaScript in order to create our own custom widget.
