Comments on: The Business of Ajax – Google’s Ajax Search API

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 17:10:29 +0000

google’s hidden private project
see http://devshots.com

By: Dustin Senos

Dustin Senos — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 23:42:48 +0000

Well this is nice to read… should have read that first.

Think this is a no no?

http://noirgle.com

By: Ribin

Ribin — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 06:34:15 +0000

see http://enginepuller.com

By: bill wilson

bill wilson — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 04:48:55 +0000

When was the last time you reviewed Yahoo’s terms:
http://developer.yahoo.com/usagePolicy/

They do not allow any form of mixing:

Yahoo! Search

The Yahoo! Search APIs are covered under the Yahoo! Developer Network Terms of Use. Yahoo! Search APIs are subject to usage guidelines rather than commercial restrictions – except for Local Search which is available only for non-commercial use at this time.

With the Yahoo! Search APIs (except for Local Search), you are free to build applications that make up to the standard rate limit volume of queries as long as they do NOT:

* Include non-Yahoo! sponsored search elements
* Include meta-search functionality; integrating results from a variety of Search providers
* Circumvent our rate limiting or application tracking in any way

By: Dietrich Kappe

Dietrich Kappe — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 21:00:58 +0000

It’s not the computational resources, but rather the data and the editorial effort to keep it clean. There are communal efforts to build databases like this (see the dmoz.org restaurant data), but the results have real quality control issues.

By: Samyak

Samyak — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 19:45:12 +0000

Why can’t we just have colloborative open source alternative to Yahoo and Google alike :). I would be ready to give some of my computational power.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 19:40:12 +0000

This is why I went with Yahoo when faced with wanting to use the search API.
http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/samples.html#_branding-callbacks-etc_