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Re:Hiring Great Developers: The Pre-Screening on Friday November 12, 2010 @02:53AM (#1896892)

Very cool. I'm thinking it would be great if elance-type of sites, or even experts exchange, would have an area where a prospective employer can submit small coding questions to potential employees.

Re:Joojoo is dead on Thursday November 11, 2010 @06:57AM (#1893598)

VC's have nothing to do with optimism, and everything to do with who you are. If you're an "insider", chances are you'll get funded even if your product is absolute crap. If you're an unknown entity, good luck getting funded even if you have a killer product.

Re:Google web api dead, Bing the sole survivor... on Thursday November 04, 2010 @03:09AM (#1868024)

nl,

There are two issues here:

1. You can ask for more, but how many will they give you? and 2. The fact that you need a key, makes it virtually useless for wide use in applications or websites. With the old api which didn't require a key, you had, practically speaking no limit when calling the api client-side. With the key that option falls away.

Re:Google web api dead, Bing the sole survivor... on Wednesday November 03, 2010 @04:23PM (#1866337)

Huge difference between the two, unfortunately. The CSE is made for specific websites, not web-wide search. And it's limited to 100 queries (more if you ask for it, but still limited) per day per key. Compare that to the previous unlimited search api!

Google web api dead, Bing the sole survivor...

Posted by BweezySearch on Wednesday November 03, 2010 @09:09AM
from the self-post dept.

Google announced on Nov 1st that their web ajax api was deprecated. Now that the Yahoo BOSS api will be switching over to the Bing index, the only api alternative left will be Bing (or BOSS, but thats the same). Kinda scary to go from three apis (G,Y,B) to just one in a few months, limiting choice and potential competition in the industry...

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Re:Ask HN: Blekko - what happened on Day 0? on Tuesday November 02, 2010 @02:33PM (#1861685)

Maybe the oldfashioned way; by putting a bunch of spiders out there? Don't forget they've been working on the index for a while now.

Re:Google Introduces API Console on Tuesday November 02, 2010 @02:22PM (#1861631)

I think the biggest news here (which I think Google tried to hide under all the announcements of "new" stuff) is that the web search ajax api was deprecated. There is no no official way to search the entire web with a Google api. I imagine this will be painful to many many sites and applications out there.