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Cape Clear launches Google by e-mail 
Friday, April 19 2002
by John Kennedy


Irish company Cape Clear Software has launched a live demo of a Web services
e-mail application using the Internet search engine Google. 





Cape Clear used its Web services technology to build Google-mail, an application
which lets anyone use Google by sending a search query in the subject line of an
e-mail to . The system instantly replies by sending the top
10 results via e-mail. 



Cape Clear said the application could be useful for PDAs, mobile phones, offline
laptop users and anyone else who has infrequent, low quality access to the
Internet.



Web services are business and consumer applications which are delivered over the
Internet, and which people can select and combine through almost any device, from
personal computers to mobile phones.



"It's an example of how easy it is to use Web services, a justification and
proof-point for the technology," said Tom Murphy, spokesman for Cape Clear.
"Developers can link any application they want to the Google search engine.
It's a core example of what you can do with Web services."



According to Murphy, applications like Cape Clear's Google-mail are possible
because Google itself has opened its application programming interface (API) for
free to developers who want to build non-commercial applications. More
information on the Google Web APIs service is at Google's href="http://www.google.com/apis/">Web site.



Established in 1999 and with offices in Dublin, London and California, Cape Clear
was established by its executive chairman and Iona Technologies co-founder Annrai
O'Toole. The company focuses 100 percent of its attention on Web services
products and currently has over 50 customers including BT, which uses Cape
Clear's technology to link different applications throughout the company. BSkyB
uses Cape Clear technology to connect orders for satellite TV football matches
and movies with its back-end billing system.



Last year Cape Clear raised EUR18.6 million in second-round funding through two
US venture capital companies, Accel Partners and Greylock.