Watch Tim Berners-Lee – inventor of the Web – talk about the past, present and future of the Web (The Royal Society, this Monday, September 22).
“We got a wonderful mess of stuff to browse for people.
Wouldn’t it be cool if we had all our data represented as these binary relationships between things? Then we could write some really interesting programs to analyze it . . .
What about data . . .
I mean, Google is amazing . . . mainly because it looks at the topology of links . . . their algorithms are very interesting for looking at human-readable things . . . but what about the data?”
– Tim Berners-Lee (On the Semantic Web, and the Web in 1994), Sept 22, 2003
Here’s some Google, Google-Web-API, and Google-like tools for you to try:
RooDolF: “RooDolF allows you to query the Google search engine via the Google Api and have your results returned in standard RDF [XML Feed] format.”
How Cool am I? I don’t think there’s a use for this one... well, I score 100.
Googleware: “Googleware is a little web application that let you request for several queries to be regulary asked to google. You will be noticed by mail each times new entry are found, and you may browse query results with any regular web browser.”
SearchAlert.net: “SearchAlert.net provides Web notification services for individuals and affiliate web sites. Our first service allows individuals to subscribe to a Web search - as new results are found, e-mail notifications are delivered to the users existing e-mail account.”
XooMLe: If you think SOAP is overhead for your search request, this might be for you. XooMLe gives “you the ability to query Google and get your results in basic XML (or plain-text for spelling suggestions and the complete page for cached pages)”. Why doesn’t Google offer this format as alternative?
Floogle: This is supposed to be a Flash-based Google, but it didn’t work when I tried. (Might be the API keys were used for today.)
FroogleFeeder: This service wants to help you set up a Froogle shopping catalog feed.
Mangle: A random word finder. I had the same idea some days ago, just stumbled on this one via DMOZ.... but this site was definitely first! (And others implemented something like this to.)
I updated the Moviebot. It now tries to add a tagline and plot outline.
All that needs to be done is to replace blanks with dashes, remove a possible “the” at the beginning, query the Google Web API for the IMDB.com page via e.g. ...
inurl:imdb-com-title-citizen-kane
... choose the first result, grab that URL dynamically, and get the text between certain markers.
(It would be even nicer if we could have an IMDB Web API. It could be yet another great SOAP Web Service.)
Also, this new version will grab Amazon results based on your input. (A while ago I posted on how to combine Google and Amazon search results.)
In the meantime, I hear that “when Web surfers use Google to search on the name ’Udi Manber,’ who is president of Amazon’s newly formed search unit, A9.com, they’ll find the first result is an ad for jobs at Google” (Stefanie Olsen, CNET, Google, Amazon in a war of search words, September 26, 2003).
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