[development] Yahoo term extraction API and tags

[James Walker]

On 1/18/06 12:57 PM, John Handelaar wrote:
> 
> I'll throw this one out there because I won't get
> to it myself for a couple of weeks at least:
> 
> 
> Yahoo Web Services' Term Extractor API
> 
> http://adactio.com/journal/display.php/20060116025204.xml
> http://developer.yahoo.net/search/content/V1/termExtraction.html
> 

I actually remember Rasmus showing this off (while it was still in beta 
perhaps?) at PHP Quebec last year and thinking it had some really cool 
potential.

> 
> Thoughts:
> 
> a)  Would be a *brilliant* way of autofilling tags in the
>     folksonomy modules
> 
> b)  Could enable Google/Yahoo Adwords users to throw those
>     tags at ad invocation and massively increase the relevance
>     of contextual ads for Drupal users.
> 
> 
> I want b) so much, I'll probably write it.
> 

yeah, I don't see myself personally having much time to get around to it 
in the near future... but definitely I'm +1 for the idea :)

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