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Replacement for Yahoo Term Extraction API

Posted by andraz, under zemanta on August 11th, 2009

Yahoo is shutting down their Yahoo Term Extraction API. Developers are now looking for a replacement that would extract important keywords, tags, terms and entities from plain text or HTML.

Here’s the one we kindly suggest: Zemanta API

Zemanta API offers you everything that Term Extractor did and partly what Yahoo Contextual Web Search did:

  • keyword extraction / auto tagging
  • entity and concept extraction and disambiguation
  • categorization (into big taxonomy)
  • related image search
  • related article search

All this smart information can be used for SEO keyword optimization, smart content organization, semantic internal search and more. If you want term extraction we have Python, Java, C#, Ruby, Perl and PHP examples.

We are sad to hear about Yahoo keyword extractor shutdown, but happy to provide an alternative. It was one of many inspirations for releasing the Zemanta API service. Yahoo is doing a fantastic job with its BOSS and SearchMonkey initiatives and knowing some guys on those teams I am sure we can expect even greater stuff in the future (albeit maybe under different parent company).

So are you willing to give Zemanta API a try? Please comment below!

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  • I just went to register and hit a solid wall of questions - what am I doing, who will use it, am I going to run advertising? Too many questions. It also appears there will be a rate limit of 1,000 queries/day, which is way too small to be useful for an Internet-facing application of any kind. At least for me.

    I love your products and what I perceive to be your direction, but I did not complete the registration process. I may be back once you've figured out what the commercial model is and how it's going to be offered - then I can make an informed decision as to whether I can rely on the service.

    Unsolicited advice: the data you collect about what people are "going to do" is almost useless - far better to ask for a user name, get a signed T&C, and issue an API key. Then, you can see what people ACTUALLY DO. What they actually do is a much stronger signal with much less noise. :-)

    Good luck and keep up the good work.
  • andraz
    Hi, thanks for reporting back on your experience.

    It seems we have to give out information more clearly :)

    The model ... as it says on developer page, you get 10.000 calls per day as soon as you send us an email. Above that the pricing is here: http://www.zemanta.com/api/#pricing

    I hope that is straightforward enough :)


    bye
    Andraz Tori, CTO at Zemanta
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