I've been told that Yahoo used to had a free LSI service known as Yahoo Boss API that begans to being payed since July 20th and that Microsoft Bing Search Engine have a free service that offers similar but not as good functionalities as Yahoo Boss API.
Does there exist other free APIs than the above that provides such service to developers?
I've been trying to find something similar from Google without any results.
Unfortunatelly, as of Aug 2013 there are no such trustworthy services :( or at least I wasn't able to find anyone.
Have you tried http://www.saplo.com?
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Is there any access to the "google-custom-search" for students?
It is for a thesis. I want to implement/use the "normalized google distance" for my dataset. Unfortunately, my university has no general agreement with google.
PS. yes I know I could simply parse the web-page. But it seems to be a bit lame if there is an api for that.
Google discontinued the only paid option of the Custom Search Engine (CSE), so now your only option is 'free' -- in return for seeing a few content-based ads in your custom search results.
The 'pro' option now is the json/atom Search API, also free up to 100 queries per day.
I highly recommend that "anyone who ever uses a search engine", check them both out. It takes minutes to create a custom search - and after that there are countless optional ways to customize or integrate with other (free) tools like Analytics or Sheets/Slides/Forms/etc. If your CSE gets popular enough, they'll start paying you.
Google has a lot of 'products' that many people aren't aware of (most with free options) that.
Side note, since you're a class - Microsoft has some pretty sweet deals for anyone student/teacher with an email address on a school domain ($1000's in free software.)
I want to run text-to-speech conversion on my server using a service over an API.
Google Text-To-Speech (TTS) is not available for this now. What alternatives are available (both paid and free)?
Here's a selection of RESTful service providers that I know of.
Cereproc
Ivona
iSpeech
Nuance
Microsoft (Project Oxford)
Watson
Neo
Acapela
AT&T (think this is closed to new users now)
There are others, some free - but lower quality. You get what you pay for...
I want to integrate a SMS payment solution for my website. I will be offering some premium content and as the prices are not high (1, 3, 5 or 10 Euros) and I would want to use a SMS payment solution.
Unfortunately, I didn't find any providers.
I want the service to provide an API so that the user never has to leave my website.
There are a few services out there that provide you with this type of feature. Although, as this involves money you'll most likely need to contact one of the services before you can get an idea of the APIs and pricing.
I did find a couple of services that seem to offer something similar to what you are looking for.
Some services I found
http://www.boku.com/merchants/features/
http://www.daopay.com/business/how-it-works.php
http://www.smsteknik.se/prodinfo/smspay_eng.asp
Keep in mind that these are not recommendations, and you should do your own research to determine which SMS provider is the most appropriate for you.
I have been using the Google Websearch API for over 1 year now. The service was deprecated in Nov 2010 but continues to provide results to date. More recently, google has started to enforce the 1,000 queries (?) per day limit on this deprecated service. I swear, last month I made over 10,000 API calls in one day without any errors from the service (same IP, same API key).
So I guess my question is has anyone found an alternative yet? I know yahoo boss is pretty good but I am working exclusively on Google for my projects. I do not mind spending money for for this service either as long as i can get 64 results from Google.
On that thought, how are services like Zoomrank able to bypass all Google limits? I have a subscription with Zoomrank and I can get daily rankings for all my keywords. Do they have a tie-up with Google or are they just accessing some secret service I don't know about.
Some people have suggested the new Google custom search, but i dont know how does that help me search the web? Google CS is limited to the CSE you create and searches within those engines. If I am looking for web results for Pizza, Google CS doesnt help me.
Thanks for your input. Much appreciated
UPDATE: #ggez44 points to some official Google documentation of the solution described below here: http://support.google.com/customsearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1210656
You can use the Google Custom Search Engine to search the entire web.
In brief:
Create a CSE that searches a single site (e.g. google.com)
In the CSE control panel's Basics section, set to "Search the entire web but emphasize certain sites"
In the Sites section, delete the single site that you added when you created the CSE
Full details here:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/customsearch/thread?tid=56c0bd92dda351b7&hl=en&fid=56c0bd92dda351b7000495e3f500d83f
Once that's implemented, you can enable billing in the Google API Console at a CPM of $5, to a total of 10,000 queries.
Google API Console: https://code.google.com/apis/console/
Pricing: https://code.google.com/apis/customsearch/v1/overview.html#Pricing
I want to build a service which needs to get this data from some source for further analysis. Does Google, Yahoo or someone else provides free access to this data for use in other websites using some API. I think Twitter does something like this for their data although they enforce some limits on this. The data I need is mostly for US and Canada.
Thanks,
Gary
You can find a bunch of free web services here: http://www.webservicex.net/
If you can stand the ads, you can also check here: http://www.webservicelist.com/