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As part of a Project I'm working on I've been instructed to implement Google News API into a Web Application.
However, I've checked the Google News API site, and I see the following message:
Important: The Google News Search API has been officially deprecated
as of May 26, 2011. It will continue to work as per our deprecation
policy, but the number of requests you may make per day may be
limited.
I've checked SO Questions but I've not been able to find a question related to the News API.
What should I use now that Google News API is redundant?
Is it the Custom Search API?
And if so, how can I make this relevant for just
News Results for a particular query for my Web Application?
I've checked the Google News RSS, but this uses HTML in the description which won't work for my requirements as I just need the text.
Depending on your needs, you want to use their section feeds, their search feeds
http://news.google.com/news?q=apple&output=rss
or Bing News Search.
http://www.bing.com/toolbox/bingdeveloper/
I'm running into the same issue with one of my own apps. So far I've found the only non-deprecated way to access Google News data is through their RSS feeds. They have a feed for each section and also a useful search function. However, these are only for noncommercial use.
As for viable alternatives I'll be trying out these two services: Feedzilla, Daylife
Looks like you might have until the end of 2013 before they officially close it down.
http://groups.google.com/group/google-ajax-search-api/browse_thread/thread/6aaa1b3529620610/d70f8eec3684e431?lnk=gst&q=news+api#d70f8eec3684e431
Also, it sounds like they are building a replacement... but it's going to cost you.
I'd say, go to a different service. I think bing has a news API.
You might enjoy (or not) reading: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1864625
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I'm using Google Custom Search on a client website. They are not very happy about rival companies showing up on sponsored links on their own site. I know we can use Google Site Search but it has an annual fee. I've been looking all around for a Free/OpenSource alternative for Google CSE, but found little I can use. Anyone have any suggestions?
Check this question. What is a good search engine for embedding in a web site. IMO if the client dont want to pay for a search engine then they will have to live with the advertisements if they want a good search engine.
Google has a paid version of search. You can read about it here. We use it in our intranet.
Check out the Google JSON/AJAX Search API. It's a lightweight way of doing a query and returning pure search results that you can then display.
http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/documentation/
Search is very big business right now because it is relatively immature as an industry - similar to the OS industry many years ago. Anyone with something good is going to charge for it. The open source community will only catch up when the core concepts around search stabilize and become more widely understood (and therefore reproducible). Right now much of the basics are still trade secrets.
Short answer - if you want something even remotely as good as Google, expect to pay for it.
You can block your competitors just as with AdSense, "While AdSense allows you to filter ads by URLs, you can also filter URLs from your search results within your CSE account." - https://www.google.com/support/adsense/bin/answer.py?answer=91652
The Austrian company Mindbreeze ( http://www.mindbreeze.com/index_en.html ) has a good alternative site search for websites.
You can test it here for free: http://www.mindbreeze.com/RegisterInSite.html
opensource alternative:
http://lucene.apache.org/
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Is there an API available for grabbing Google Streetview images at a particular location (and direction)? I see that its possible to get and position the Flash control, but I'd prefer something that just gave me a JPEG (or some other bitmap format).
You're looking for the Static Maps API. Unfortunately, they haven't finished the work on having a static Street View map (The Static Street View API is now available). As comments 4 and 5 indicate, you may be able to get the thumbnail images used for Street View (though you may have to actually have Google load that particular image before being able to grab it and potentially cache it yourself). Other than that, you're stuck with the Flash control.
You may be able to have a service on the backend that essentially takes a screen cap of the Flash control and caches it, but that's a bit hackish.
The static images aren't officially available, but you can grab the tiles and thumbnails using the same API that Google's Streetview flash application uses.
I wrote about the technique here:
http://jamiethompson.co.uk/web/2010/05/15/google-streetview-static-api/
Google now offers a Street View Image API that serves this purpose:
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/streetview/
Note that accessing Street View imagery through any means other than documented public APIs (like the Street View Image API and the JavaScript Maps APIs) is not permitted by the Maps API Terms of Service, and could result in requests for that imagery by your site being blocked by Google.
Many thanks,
Thor.
Here is the documentation.
Here is the reference documentation.
Check out the Google samples.
I believe that this example is what you are looking for.
Also, you will need to register for the Google Maps API key.
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What is the best wiki engine with good authorization features?
DokuWiki is a great open source PHP Wiki, clean syntax, straightforward install, simple report for read-only and private pages, plus a full ACL system, and a active community of plugin developers.
MediaWiki is amazing from a feature stand point, if you need SVG and MathML support, but I find it too hard to customize and hack on personally.
They use MoinMoin in some subjects at my uni. It has really good authorisation, controlled via simple ACLs at the top of each page. Each student submits work on pages private to them and the subject staff, so it definitely seems to work...
We use atlassian confluence it has authorization features like restricting viewing or editing of pages for groups or users. But it's a commercial product (not free)
Define "good". =)
Some would say that the original wiki script has the best authorization features in a wiki sense of the word, seeing that Ward Cunningham defined Wiki as:
The simplest online database that
could possibly work.
That said, I can share my experience with hosting Mediawiki sites and that is that I often find that I would like to be able to define privileges on a group/page and group/section kind of way. But it always depends on the application. I use UseModWiki for robowiki.net and it works excellently even though it has the most rudimentary authorization system (next after the original wiki script then).
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Is there a complete list of Google Gears enabled sites? I'm aware of rememberthemilk.com, google docs and google calendar
MySpace's message system is one of the biggest outside of Google. At least so I thought according to this article.
Other sites are:
Wordpress
MindMeister
PassPack
ZohoWriter
BuxFer
SomeThings
So far it seems that:
wordpress.com
Zoho writer
Buxfer
PassPack
Google Reader
MindMeinster
Google Picasa Web Albums
MySpace (Mail Search)
YouTube
Support Google Gears in some fashion. (list compiled from: wikipedia, and this site here)
Listed in the order of perceived decreasing complexity of offline implementation:
Autodesk Labs Project Draw
Buxfer
Gmail
Google Calendar
Google Docs
Google Reader
MindMeinster
Myspace
Paymo
Passpack
Picasa Web Albums
Remember The Milk
Some Things
WordPress
Zoho Mail
Zoho Writer
Taken from:
http://tarunupadhyay.com/2009/06/15/full-list-of-websites-that-you-can-take-offline-with-google-gears/
Gmail now uses Gears too.
Remember The Milk
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Is there a tool to automatically search through my site and test all the links? I hate running across bad urls.
Xenu link sleuth is excellent (and free)
w3.org checklink
If I were you, I'd check out the W3C Link Checker.
Something like this should work: http://www.dead-links.com/
Do google searches for "404 checker" or "broken link checker"
I used Xenu's Link Sleuth in the past. It will crawl your site and tell you which links point to nowhere. It is not super fancy but it works.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenu%27s_Link_Sleuth
The Wikipedia page lists a whole bunch of other products.
WebHTTrack
Can take a long time to go through a large web site (I archived a 250MB website and it took approximately 2 hours - it wasn't local though) It has a log so you should be able to track 404s easily.
Also check out Google's webmaster tools.
http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/
They give you the ability to see the 404's that GoogleBot discovers when crawling your website (along with lots and lots of other stuff).