Name: Anonymous 2007-09-27 9:56 ID:4+VA+Lq/
Google and Yahoo both offer 'suggest' features on their search engines. Basically, you type something and it will try to intelligently guess the rest of your search term and it will provide you will other relevant terms.
The streams are pretty similar in the fact that they both deliver their results in JavaScript Object Notation format: Specifically, JSON arrays.
The number of array values and their relevance to the key words varies a lot between the streams:
Yahoo yields the most potential keywords, yet Google's are (seemingly) more relevant
They core of the challenge is this: produce something (be it a toy or something genuinely useful) that makes use of either or both of these streams.
This challenge is 'open': Any language, platform or operating system is acceptable. Also there will be no judge, only the denizens of /prog/, eager to rip your source code apart.
I would wish you good luck, but EXPERT PROGRAMMERS do not need it.
The streams are pretty similar in the fact that they both deliver their results in JavaScript Object Notation format: Specifically, JSON arrays.
The number of array values and their relevance to the key words varies a lot between the streams:
http://suggestqueries.google.com/complete/search?output=firefox&qu=4chan
http://ff.search.yahoo.com/gossip?output=fxjson&command=4chanYahoo yields the most potential keywords, yet Google's are (seemingly) more relevant
They core of the challenge is this: produce something (be it a toy or something genuinely useful) that makes use of either or both of these streams.
This challenge is 'open': Any language, platform or operating system is acceptable. Also there will be no judge, only the denizens of /prog/, eager to rip your source code apart.
I would wish you good luck, but EXPERT PROGRAMMERS do not need it.