September 14, 2005
MSN releases API’s to developers
MSN went live with following API’ today
- MSN search API
- MSN Messenger
- MSN Virtual Earth
- MSN Search Toolbar API
- MSN Start.com API
Detilas here : http://msdn.microsoft.com/msn/
Aussies to turn web search upside down
Vnunet reports : Australian researchers have patented a method of exploring the web which they claim could revolutionise existing search engines.
Developed by Ori Allon, a 26 year-old PhD student from the University of New South Wales (UNSW), the Orion search engine is designed to complement searches conducted on services such as Google, Yahoo or MSN Search.
Allon explained that conventional search engines find pages in which keywords occur and that sometimes these pages are important to the topic, but at other times are not.
Orion is designed to find pages where the content is about a topic strongly related to the keyword. It then returns a section of the page, and lists other topics related to the keyword so that the user can pick the most relevant.
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Yahoo shopping launches mobile search
After google going beta with its Froogle Mobile on google lab. Its yahoo’s turn to do the matching game and launch yahoo mobile shopping search.
“On the heels of the release of Yahoo! Shopping APIs, we at Yahoo! Shopping have developed our own application based on those very web services. It’s a great example of the innovation that can happen when building on our open APIs.
We’re delighted to announce the availability of our new Shopping Search on Mobile. Yahoo! Shopping Search on Mobile (Beta) allows you to price compare product prices from your mobile phone, accessing our database of millions of offers.
Simply enter http://shop.yahoo.com into your WAP 2.0-enabled browser, search for a product, and start comparing. Check your phone’s user manual to see if it’s WAP 2.0-enabled.”
User does not have to enter a different address for mobile shopping search for WAP phones. If http://shop.yahoo.com in your web browser it goes to http://shopping.yahoo.com doing a redirect depeing upon the device that is being used, unlike google where you have to enter a different address http://wml.froogle.com/
Yahoo has a post on its blog about this mobile shopping search.
Judge clears way for Dr. Kai-Fu Lee to work for Google
Googles blog has this post today.
“A Washington state judge ruled today that Dr. Kai-Fu Lee can immediately begin working for Google. (There’s a profile of Dr. Lee in today’s San Francisco Chronicle.) We’re thrilled, and he’s excited to get right to work on several big things, including recruiting, building our Chinese R&D center, and related government relations.
You may remember that in July, right after we hired Dr. Lee to build and head our new China R&D center, Microsoft sued both of us. They argued that Dr. Lee was going to do work at Google that was competitive with what he had been doing at Microsoft – which they said would violate the one-year non-compete agreement that Microsoft requires employees to sign. (They sued even before knowing what Dr. Lee was going to be doing here. Hmmm…) At first, the judge in the case decided temporarily to limit what work Dr. Lee could do at Google until he learned more about the dispute….” Read it here on Googles Official blog.
