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Create your own search engine using Alexa Web Search Platform

Last night Alexa announced that they are opening up their entire database, including server services to developers in exchange for consumption fees. This means there is finally a database API that developers can tie into for commercial purposes with the fees clearly outlined. One of the things that appeals to me, which I’m sure other […]

12-13-2005 | Permanent Link | 2 Comments | Related Entries: API, Information

Virtual Earth API with commercial site using PHP

Reference: Building your commercial Virtual Earth Website using PHP:
We have already seen some basic C# code behind ASP pages that proxy the search and advertising queries. However, being a web based control you are not limited to working solely with Microsoft on the server side. In this article, we will achieve the same result using […]

10-24-2005 | Permanent Link | No Comments | Related Entries: How To, API

Google Adwords API

It’s called the APIlity Library and it allows interaction with the Google Adwords program:
The APIlity PHP Library provides an object-oriented way to easily access and manage the Google AdWords API from within PHP. This comes along with an abstraction from the SOAP and WSDL details.
Requirements (also from the sourceforge page):

APIlity works both with PHP4 and […]

09-11-2005 | Permanent Link | No Comments | Related Entries: API, PHP 5.x, PHP 4.x