Google and FeedBurner

According to TechCrunch the rumored purchase of FeedBurner by Google has been confirmed. Now this makes sense, especially considering the release of the Google AJAX Feed API last month.

For a year now Google has had Mark Lucovsky and team churning out some very nice AJAX tools. Starting with the Google AJAX Search API this time last year they have progressively stepped up to the plate with enhancements and new tools.

They have shown a real desire to get creative and functional at the same time with AJAX.

Here is a pretty impressive list of applications they have created over the last year:

Google AJAX Search API

Google Maps API

Google Map Search gadget

Video Bar

Google Video gadget

support for Custom Search Engines

Google News bar

support for Book Search

Blog Bar

inclusion of YouTube Video

Google AJAX Feed API

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