Dave Winer says:
An open message to Microsoft and Yahoo, and major implementors of search engines: Please clone the Google API, without the limits.
Sounds like a great idea. Instead of waiting though, why not just make a common interface now? An API cloner that provides the net with a common way to access all of these search APIs in a unified way?
So with that as a charter, I’ve found my new project to work on. APIcloner.com.
I don’t even have anything up yet, since this is so new, so give me a few weeks as I iron things out.