If you use Google APIs much, you might be interested in checking out Google's latest product for developers.

Coming straight from the fine people at Google Code, the API console is the fruit of a yearlong effort to better organize Google's APIs.

The new console will help developers manage their API usage for all their applications and websites.

For the console, you can log in with your Google credentials to see data for all your API projects. If you're working with a team, you can create and manage project teams from the console.

The console will also help you track exactly how you use each API, and you can get stats on API usage for your app or site, such as specific rate limits, which pages are making the most API calls and graphs of API usage over time.

Right now, the API console supports a handful of Google APIs (including APIs for Buzz, Translate, Custom Search and five others) with support for more expected soon.





In other Google APIs news, the Google Developer Team is also happy to announce new, improved APIs for Translate and Custom Search. The new Custom Search API will return search results in Atom or JSON syndication formats in addition to XML and the Custom Search element.

These refreshed APIs and the new console are the first built on the company's new API architecture, which is discussed in the hour-long Google I/O video below. What do you think of the console so far? Is it useful for you, either personally or professionally?