Show HN: I'm a 14 year-old dev who has programmed an artificial intelligence bot

Re:Show HN: I'm a 14 year-old dev who has programmed an arti... by namidark on Thursday April 16, 2015 @08:21AM (#9387403)

If you look at the source its using something called blekko.php - which upon googling heads to a "IBM Watson purchased this".

Is this using watson behind the scenes?

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Re:Show HN: I'm a 14 year-old dev who has programmed an arti... by seanlevan on Thursday April 16, 2015 @08:34AM (#9387465)

No - if you look up Blekko (which is a regular web search engine which had a free API), it just shut down (which is actually a bad thing for me). I was using it for researching and corroborating web results, which hinders part of the functionality of my bot.

Blekko was just bought by IBM a few days ago, so to answer your question, my bot does not use IBM's APIs. My bot was using it for web results, but now it doesn't work. I'm trying to find a free web search API as an alternative now that Blekko is shut down.

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Re:Show HN: I'm a 14 year-old dev who has programmed an arti... by pki on Thursday April 16, 2015 @10:21AM (#9388075)

Bing or Yahoo BOSS (https://developer.yahoo.com/boss/search/) is mostly free to use, with some caps.

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Re:Show HN: I'm a 14 year-old dev who has programmed an arti... by namidark on Thursday April 16, 2015 @08:45AM (#9387528)

Very impressive :)

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