http://simonwillison.net/2009-08-19T11:44:06+00:00Simon Willison2009-08-19T11:44:06+00:002009-08-19T11:44:06+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Aug/19/termextraction/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2009/08/term_extraction_stays.html">By Popular Demand, We&#x27;re Keeping the Term Extraction Service</a></strong></p> Yahoo! aren’t shutting down the term extractor after all. On the one hand, this is a great decision—but this kind of back and forth (dare I say flip-flopping?) really doesn’t help encourage people to build against hosted APIs. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/termextractor">termextractor</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/yahoo">yahoo</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ydn">ydn</a></p>

2009-08-12T11:57:27+00:002009-08-12T11:57:27+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Aug/12/closure/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/yws-search-general/message/1757">Yahoo! Term Extraction and Contextual Web Search services to be discontinued</a></strong></p> The official closure date is August 31st. Term extraction was really useful—thankfully there are a number of decent alternatives such as Zemanta, OpenCalais and topia.termextract. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/opencalais">opencalais</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/termextractor">termextractor</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/topia">topia</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/web-services">web-services</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/yahoo">yahoo</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/zemanta">zemanta</a></p>