AJAXing Google’s SOAP API

There are many webmasters who leverage Google's search results and other related data by using their SOAP API. However, what are these folks to do now that Google is no longer supporting it?

Handling Missing Data

I have an old Perl project that goes out to a Government web site, ftp's some files, massages them in various ways, and spits out some output. Over time, the project grew, and now does more than it used to.