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Yahoo Quietly Axes Two Search APIs

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Adam DuVander, August 13th, 2009

It hasn’t been long since developers responded with fear that Yahoo’s innovative search tools could go away. Now two of the smaller, but still well-loved, APIs have been given less than a month to live.

In a message on Yahoo’s developer forum, YDN’s Brian Cantoni posted a short and to the point notice:

“We now have an official closure date of August 31, 2009 for the Term Extraction and Contextual Web Search services. Internally, both services share a backend data source that is closing down, so the publicly-facing YDN services will be closing as well.”

And at the top of Yahoo’s documentation pages for these APIs is the clear message. . .

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