Tried posting a comment on Simon's blog but it wasn't working. So here you go Simon:
This is an amazing product - not just because of the technology, but the implications for the future of news. In fact, I think this is much bigger than the NYT API launch that some people are comparing it to. Just wanted to say congratulations!
Advantages over the NYTimes article search api is The Guardian provides full article text and allows you to use the content on your site/app alongside your own advertising.
Disadvantage is it seems to have less structures metadata than the NYT (from what I can see currently).
I'm looking forward to most newspapers having apis letting you correlate coverage across multiple sources (hopefully with a consistent interface)
We have a nod towards a consistent interface in the Guardian API in that we offer an Atom output format - it's pretty basic at the moment, but we're looking for community feedback to help us make the Atom version really useful.
This is an amazing product - not just because of the technology, but the implications for the future of news. In fact, I think this is much bigger than the NYT API launch that some people are comparing it to. Just wanted to say congratulations!
Some thoughts on my blog: http://blog.newscred.com/?p=179