Category Archives: Search

New Technorati APIs and SDK

Technorati released a new version of its APIs tonight. Details are available on the Technorati developers wiki. Use apibeta.technorati.com for now but, if there are no major issues, beta will end in about a week. Technorati will now return your query as RSS if you specify your format parameter. Data are returned in UTF-8 format. The new API has better error handling, including appropriate HTTP responses for bad data or no data. Outbound links are sorted by dates and duplicate links stripped. The new API also allows you to limit the number of returned items….

Technorati helps you pick the winner

Why has the world of online marketing not picked up on the image campaigns of radio stations and trade shows? There are individuals willing to wear your t-shirt, place a bumper sticker on their car, or answer their phone proclaiming their love for your product if there is a chance of a product giveaway reward for compliance. The street team, the random person in the trade show crowd that just might sight you and reward you with an iPod or free concert tickets. In the world of weblogs, a marketing company would team up with Technorati for a marketing campaign….

Gmail invitations auctioned on eBay

A search for Gmail on eBay shows there are currently 47 auctions selling free e-mail accounts for Google’s new mail service currently in beta testing. News.com reports $61 bids on some of these listings. Nelson Minar was kind enough to hook me up with a Gmail account a few weeks ago, but I have not been a heavy user. I have two invitations available, probably the same for these eBay users. There is nothing in the Gmail terms of use or Gmail program policies against selling these invitations. If this practice bothers you, the only e-mail address listed for feedback…

Google files for initial public offering

Google filed with the SEC today for an initial public offering. Some quotes from the Letter from the Founders, apparently written by Larry Page: “Google is not a conventional company. We do not intend to become one.” “We encourage our employees, in addition to their regular projects, to spend 20% of their time working on what they think will most benefit Google.” “As a public company, we believe a dual class voting structure will enable us to retain many of the positive aspects of being private.” “We provide many unusual benefits for our employees, including meals free of charge, doctors…

Amazon A9 Search launches

Amazon’s search engine, A9, launched in beta. Also includes yet another toolbar. Pages are cached and you can view Alexa data directly from the results page. You can log on using your Amazon account and view search history as well. “You can take notes on any web page, and reference them whenever you visit that page, on any computer that you use. Your entries are automatically saved whenever you stop typing or when you go to another page.”…

Technorati Cosmos for each post

I added a link for each post to its Tecnhorati cosmos. I followed the howto detailed by Dave Sifry. You want to change the ampersands to XHTML compliant of course. Why is there a blank rank parameter? Omitting this parameter seems to work fine, so I took it out. Most links will probably lead to “Ouch! No results found.” but it is still a good thing to have and more powerful than a TrackBack….

Wired News : Turning Search Into Science

Wired News : “Scirus is a search engine for scientists that allows them to dig through not just scientific journals, but also unpublished research, university websites, corporate Internet sites, conference agendas and minutes, discussion groups and mailing-list archives.”…