Integrating Yahoo Search in a Django site in 5 easy steps
I have been experimenting with various search options for the eutveckling.se site for a while. Google Custom Search is nice and very fast, but the number of ads appearing in the search result page makes it difficult for users to separate result items from ads. (Update: I am sticking with Google Custom Search until I figure out how to get Yahoo search to present proper excerpts). I am a fast reader which comes with the tradeoff of missing important information sometimes. Skimming through the terms for using the API I was a bit disappointed at first. That was because I was only reading the first column in the table that lists the previous terms of use. Oh well. The second column that lists the current restrictions (or rather lack of restrictions) makes it clear that Yahoo search is very easy to get started with. It is almost so that you start wondering where Yahoo will make money from providing a service like that. ...