Is Bing killing Yahoo! Search?
In the graph below we can see the amount of searches done in the top 5 search engines (Google, Yahoo, AOL, Ask Jeeves and Bing) Google being the true leader. Notice the slight growth of Bing over Yahoo in the past month. Scary for Yahoo!?
Source: StatCounter Global Stats – Search Engine Market Share
Yahoo! Query Language (YQL)
The Yahoo! Query Language is an expressive SQL-like language that lets you query, filter, and join data across Web services. With YQL, apps run faster with fewer lines of code and a smaller network footprint.
Yahoo! and other websites across the Internet make much of their structured data available to developers, primarily through Web services. To access and query these services, developers traditionally endure the pain of locating the right URLs and documentation to access and query each Web service.
With YQL, developers can access and shape data across the Internet through one simple language, eliminating the need to learn how to call different APIs.
How Do I Get Started?
- Check out the YQL Console.
- Read how to access YQL from your application.
- Get your API Keys to sign your requests if you need them.