[development] Yahoo term extraction API and tags

Khalid B kb at 2bits.com
Wed Jan 18 22:07:51 UTC 2006


Adsense has no knowledge of taxonomy. Banner does.

On 1/18/06, Boris Mann <boris at bryght.com> wrote:
>
> On 18-Jan-06, at 10:15 AM, James Walker wrote:
>
> > 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 :)
>
> I believe both adsense and banner work with taxonomy terms, so should
> work with that. I could ask Rasmus to present about this at OSCMS in
> Vancouver.
>
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