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Yahoo! Search Web Services

March 1st, 2005 • Related • Filed Under

Yahoo! Search has just launched a Web service:

http://developer.yahoo.net/

You can search five databases: web, local, news, image, and video.

It’s completely free to use for all personal and non-commercial projects and it’s totally REST-based. No SOAP.

There’s an SDK. It’s released as open source under the BSD license.

http://developer.yahoo.net/download/

There are examples in all the major languages: Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, and Python.

They’re hosting applications on a Wiki:

http://developer.yahoo.net/wiki/index.cgi?ApplicationList

So far, there’s a Firefox Sidebar and an Image search application.

More links and information:

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