Is there anything that influences how terms are segmented? I submitted this query: ...
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hypermark
Sep 4, 2005 8:48 pm
Hi, I was wondering what the plans are wrt providing a web service to be able to pull quotes from Yahoo Finance. This seems like a very rich area for web...
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Jeffrey McManus
jeffreymcmanus
Sep 5, 2005 3:40 am
Hey Mark! This is one that we've received a number of requests for and we'd love to provide. When and if we can make it happen, we'll let everybody know (via...
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Mark Sigal
hypermark
Sep 5, 2005 3:46 am
Hi Jeffrey, Thanks for the quick response. Hope to hear something sooner than later but know how it goes in terms of limited resources. Mark _____ From:...
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djpeanuts2003
Sep 5, 2005 3:44 pm
Hi Yahoo. No response to my previous query so I'll put it another way. I am trying to download cached pages using the cache urls returned by the Yahoo...
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angusdurocher
Sep 8, 2005 3:26 am
(second time I'm posting this. first time seems to have not worked) Occasionally, I'll send a query to the API with a number of site: parameters and one site...
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robertoschler
Sep 10, 2005 1:59 pm
Will Yahoo at sometime offer XSLT processing from it's servers like Amazon does? Currently, except for Maps, the reward for having a successful application is...
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Toby Elliott
telliott_inc
Sep 12, 2005 4:20 pm
Thanks for your question. I am not aware of any plans to do XSLT processing, especially since the nature of our data is very different from Amazon's for the...
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robertoschler
Sep 12, 2005 5:28 pm
Toby, Ok thanks for the link. A possible point of value may be that irregardless of a developer hitting the rate cap, by adding XSLT support you allow the...
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Paul Kinlan
pcbware
Sep 12, 2005 9:17 pm
Hi, I know exactly what you mean about Internet Explorer cross domain requests. I got it working by allowing DataIslands from differnet domains but it is not a...
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robertoschler
Sep 12, 2005 9:41 pm
Paul, How did your "DataIslands" solve the problem? Somewhere the client-side browser has to access a document that is "domained"; at yahoo.com. Currently with...
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Paul Kinlan
pcbware
Sep 12, 2005 10:28 pm
Hi, This is just a quick email before I read the rest of the reply :). I found if you turn off DataIsland Security you can access Yahoo.Coms web services from...
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Toby Elliott
telliott_inc
Sep 12, 2005 10:42 pm
Thanks for your question. Unfortunately, the Ccached URL lnks are outside the API and part of the normal search process, so I don't have any further...
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robertoschler
Sep 12, 2005 11:53 pm
Paul, Ok, I understand now. You mean turning off cross domain security within the IE security permission dialog box. I personally would be hesitant to do that...
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Paul Kinlan
pcbware
Sep 13, 2005 5:58 am
Hi Robert, It was those issues exactly why I had to create a proxy script. :) At least other people have been thinking along the same lines as me :) Kind...
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brianab716
Sep 17, 2005 3:52 pm
Should there be any problem with using XMLHTTPRequest from an application using embedded IE? I'm aware of the cross-domain restrictions, but was under the...
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kurtrbrown
Sep 17, 2005 11:13 pm
Hello, Thanks for providing the Yahoo Search API. Very cool! I've encountered a couple fairly specific bugs. It would be very helpful if they were cleared up. ...
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dave pell
davepell
Sep 19, 2005 4:12 pm
I've noticed that, when doing straight up web searches, I get a different set of results from the API (even the first results often differs) than I do when I...
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Toby Elliott
telliott_inc
Sep 19, 2005 4:14 pm
Thanks for passing these along. The problematic results are usually the result of some non-UTF-data getting into the result stream, so I've passed these...
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Toby Elliott
telliott_inc
Sep 19, 2005 4:27 pm
Thanks for your question. There will always be some differences; the most common reason is that your webservice search went to one of our facilities while your...
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Luis Felipe Valdez Ru...
kyoosho
Sep 20, 2005 3:30 pm
what do you mean by embedded? is it JS? vbs? java applet? Active X Control? plug in? flash? shockwave? if its js, then u can use xmlhttprequest, but be...
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Michael Scherotter
mscherotter
Sep 21, 2005 4:05 pm
As part of a demonstration of the new capabilities in Mindjet MindManager 6, we created a Research Task Pane (similar to Microsoft Office 2003) that searches -...
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robertoschler
Sep 22, 2005 4:29 pm
I have a test "context" that I am using with the Term Extraction API call, here it is: "Two busloads of people left town on Tuesday, but only one person showed...
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Toby Elliott
telliott_inc
Sep 22, 2005 4:35 pm
Thanks for your question. For a context that short and focused I would not expect the query parameter to have any impact. It is more useful when handling a...
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robertoschler
Sep 22, 2005 4:54 pm
Toby, Good to know, I'll know what to do now. Tell the Yahoo engineers to keep up the great work, they're making "mining the Internet" a fun, powerful ...
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charlescearl
Sep 25, 2005 2:02 pm
I'm wondering if the search API could also be used for the mail or mail beta release?...
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Aldric
yeden14
Sep 25, 2005 11:16 pm
Yep! I think this would be a great feature! I have lot of friend who use yahoo groups. It's would be great if they would be able to move from our groups to my...
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Toby Elliott
telliott_inc
Sep 26, 2005 7:48 pm
... Thank you for your question. While I would love to talk about upcoming APIs and long-term plans (and there are lots!), it would be inappropriate for me to...
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Aldric
yeden14
Sep 26, 2005 11:08 pm
Hi telliott! Thanks for your answer! I understand your position... so... just remember me as an other man who said that "it would be a great feature!" I think...
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Dan Farrow
daniel_farrow
Sep 30, 2005 3:14 pm
I am writing an experimental application to search images using the Yahoo! Image Search web service. In order to reduce (or hopefully eliminate) the number of...
