Does Google has a service similar to Yahoo! Placemaker:
Developers specify structured and unstructured content; feeds, web pages, news, status articles, etc.
Placemaker identifies, disambiguates and extracts places
Placemaker returns geographic metadata, which determines the whereness of structured and unstructured content
?
Thanks
PlaceMaker became PlaceSpotter in 2012. The Yahoo! BOSS APIs (including PlaceSpotter) are shutting down on March 31, 2016. If you're looking for a replacement or alternative, you should check out the open source project CLAVIN or the recently-launched Geoparser.io API.
I don't think so, and I would be scared when it happens. Skynet won't be far off.. ;)
It sounds very similar to Reuters OpenCalais: http://www.opencalais.com/
No they don't have it.
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I have access and am starting to learn how to use the Bloomberg Terminal. My current project requires me to scrape all the news headlines and contents on the Bloomberg Terminal related to a given search criterion, e.g. "NI MICROSOFT". I've already looked at Bloomberg API but it seems to only provide access to market data such as stock/bond quotes, rather than news articles.
I'm quite stuck at the moment and not really sure where I should look for a solution. It would be great if anybody could give me some suggestions!
Thank you.
You will need to subscribe to the EDTF (Event Driven Trading Feed) service over the Api. The service provides realtime updates of Textual News, News Analytics, Corporate Actions, Economic Indicators and more. I'd suggest to contact your terminal sales rep who will connect you to the right team.
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 have searched a lot on web to find a satisfactory answer but I did't get an answer.
Some says RSS is static xml while in web API we make a proper format of request and get a proper format of response
Kindly help me on this
thanks,
The reason RESTful APIs are so inconsistent across different services is because REST is not a standard, it's not a protocol. It's an architectural style. Some things to take into consideration for your API would be; what HTTP verbs to support, what URI structure to follow, how to consistently return error messages, how to handle partial selection, versioning, authentication, pagination, and so on and so forth.. There is no specific right way of doing it (it's debated often), but there are many ways that are not so great!
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication, which is essentially a format for delivering regularly changing web content. RSS feeds allow a user to subscribe to their favorite news sources, blogs, websites, and other digital properties, and then receive the latest content from all those different areas or sites in one place, without having to repeatedly visit each individual site.
Your question sounds like "What difference is between Ford Focus and a taxi service?" Ford Focus can be one of the cars in a taxi service. But nothing more.
RSS is a standard, which describes specific format of news feed. You can have a standalone locally stored RSS-formatted file, remote stored RSS-file somewhere on a server, or you can have a web-service which constructs RSS-formatted file on the fly. It will be RSS in all three cases because RSS is something that describes internal structure of a file.
Web Service is, basically, an application which runs somewhere on a server, accepts requests, processes it according to the application's internal logic, and then provides answers. Web service can take any kind of requests and provide any kind on responses, including RSS-formatted ones.
Hope that makes things a bit clearer for you.
We will be using RSS as broadcasting channel, who ever wants to know what's happning in my Company can follow my company website's RSS feed.
I used the pincode (400036) in the geocoding webservice, but got a location in China. The webservice is shared below.
http://maps.google.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=india&components=postal_code:400036&sensor=false
Ideally it should be a location in Mumbai (Bombay) in the state of Maharashtra, India.
Any ideas why this could occur?
Also, any other parameters that can be passed to make this particular pin code work?
Thanks and regards,
Anand
P.S.: I'm a Business Analyst, so my technical know-how and command of programming languages is pretty limited. However, I'll be most happy to receive help from the community here and pass it on to my dev team. Thanks.
Geocoding and working with real-world data is hard, and not even the great Google (no sarcasm, I'm a fan) gets it right all the time. Apparently there is a software or data bug in the Google API, since this works (added Country India to the component filter):
http://maps.google.com/maps/api/geocode/json?components=postal_code:400001%7Ccountry:IN&sensor=false
But this does not, and is not even filtering by country because it still returns Chinese results:
http://maps.google.com/maps/api/geocode/json?components=postal_code:400036%7Ccountry:IN&sensor=false
If you're a paying customer, you can contact Google for support here: http://www.google.com/enterprise/portal
You can use http://geoanalyzer.in for this. Google maps and google api are slighly different as Google Maps shows you results from both Google Maps API and also from Google places hence a lot of time you get wrong data in case of Google Maps API. Geo Analyzer solved this and has been built specifically for Indian addresses.
This is one of the few available solutions that is targeted for Indian address system complexity. I hope this will help.
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/