Travelling, and not Arriving

          ... a good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving... (Lao Tzu)

Posted
16 June 2005 @ 9pm

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Php, Uncategorized, web

Fun with Yahoo!Search

WhosWhoo?!?

As you probably know, Yahoo! has launched Yahoo! Search Web Services, a service that allows users to access Yahoo content and services using REST-style requests. There’s also a Y!Q Challenge for developers (US only) who want to create new applications using these services.
Anyway, this night I spent two hours trying Yahoo! Search Web Services and I must say that it’s an interesting tool, with virtually unlimited fields of application. The result of my brief hacking session is a simple PHP web application called WhosWhoo?!?: enter the name of a famous person in the textfield and see what you get.
The code is trivial (and brutally hacked) and results are good only for well-known american people but… who knows?… maybe I’ll try to improve it in the future. Enjoy!


1 Comment

Posted by
stefano
17 June 2005 @ 3pm

Very interesting, van I ask you a copy of your code? I can suggest a search: http://www.dailycaffeine.com/whoswhoo/index.php?query=pamela+anderson (not my kind of woman, but… famous)


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