--- title: Google Music Search and Google Home Page API date: "2005-12-16T12:00:00Z" categories: - links wp_id: 467 description: I examine the launch of Google Music Search and the Home Page API, noting how Google is positioning itself as a Web 2.0 host alongside Blogger and Google Base, effectively bypassing conventional web hosting models. keywords: [google music search, google home page api, google base, web 2.0, web hosting, blogger] --- [Google Music Search](http://www.google.com/musicsearch?q=bryan+adams) and the [Home Page API](http://www.google.com/apis/homepage/guide.html). With the home page API, Google Base, and Blogger, looks like Google has bypassed conventional web hosting and become a Web 2.0 host.