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New Zemanta engine & API release

Posted by andraz, under zemanta on October 7th, 2009

Sean Hoyland

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Earlier today we quietly rolled out a new version of the Zemanta engine and API!

The Zemanta engine is responsible for analyzing whatever you write and producing suggestions that are delivered to your blogging dashboard. As with every new release, we have improved accuracy (especially of in-text links) and slightly improved speed.

More importantly we have added some functionality that third party developers have been requesting for some time now. New web API parameters allow you to get more entities and concepts for your text, more related articles, and more images. You can now also limit the age of the related articles (probably the single most requested feature).

Information about the new parameters is available on our developer portal. No matter if you use the API for term extraction, as a keywording engine, named entity extraction, or related news API, the results should be improved as of today!

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  • Great news! I've been using Zemanta on one of my site with Joomla. The results were quite minimal so I was having a hard time in picking up new exciting images every week
  • Great news, looking forward to negotiating potential extension of the API uses for the developer key I got back in the summer. I think it's about to saturate if all goes well.
  • andraz
    I am sure we'll work out something :)
  • Great Andraz. Will be in touch if folks like this first public hosted version. It could use more enticement to the user to opt in still. My plan was to have more relevant two way search based on historical keywords, frequency, confidence, and time since last update.
  • Billy
    Do the CMS plugins still work with the new API? Specifically, does the Drupal one still work? I'm getting some strange behavior today, but it might be coincidence...
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