spinn3r-client - Google Code This projects implements client bindings to access the Spinn3r web service. All of our drivers will be released under the Apache 2.0 license. The APL is a very liberal license and basically allows customers and researchers using the Spinn3r API to build whatever type of application they want on top of our platform without having to worry about legal and licensing implications. The Spinn3r API is a firehose API of live weblog, microblog, and social media content and is fetched and updated it in near real time. Users of the reference client run it from the command line as a daemon and write .protostream files to a directory on their hard drive. Once the .protostream files are written to your local disk you can use a C#, perl, python, or C (including any language where protocol buffers are supported) client to read the protostream and index the data specific to your application. Documentation Permalink API
Web Search Engines Categorized by Steve Burks, www.smcvt.edu/library Assignment Due next class - Finish In-class Questions below The Internet is providing a number of search engines and subject sites that are specific to subject disciplines and rated by evaluative criteria. Search Engines First Generation AltaVista @ AltaVista is extremely fast and comprehensive. HotBot @ HotBot is a fast, comprehensive, robot-based web index run by Wired. Excite @ Excite is a feature-rich web site offering the benefits of both a powerful search engine and a well-organized index. Second Generation Search Engines - Northern Light @ Northern Light is a robot-driven search engine of the worldwide Web. Pros: automated subject-group "folders" (they work well!) Cons: does not support complex Boolean searches Google@ Google is the Biggest of all the surface web search engines. Semantic Search Ask Jeeves @
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