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Live Search SOAP API – Updated!

2/6/2007 5:44 PM
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We’re proud to announce that we’re taking our search API out of beta, and rebranding it the Live Search SOAP API 1.0, to reflect the search engine that is powering it.
 
This release provides continued enhancements to the original API, from which you submit up to 10,000 queries per day for News, Local, or general Web content. We’ve reviewed a lot of feedback from our developer’s forum and this blog, and have made the following improvements:
  • Additional Languages:  中文！
  • Search Results: increased from the first 250 to the first 1,000. And added a flag to disable host collapsing (the suppression of more than two results from a top-level URL) to facilitate the development of accurate paging algorithms.
  • Search Tags: enhanced to return results as a comma-delimited list or as an array of name/value pairs. Results can also be filtered by the Search Tag name.
  • Local Search: no longer do you need to specify lat & lon for location, you can now city names and zip codes, just like in the web UI. We’ve also added local data support for the following markets: en-AU, en-CA, en-GB, en-US, es-US, fr-CA, fr-FR, and it-IT.
  • PhoneBook Results: now sort by distance and relevance
  • New Code Samples: we have greatly increased the number of samples in the documentation as well as added a new quick and dirty sample Console Application that you can use to quickly experiment with the API, or you can use the updated Windows Forms version in C#.

Check out the SDK for a more in-depth look at the new features.

I know the SOAP API is all fine and dandy for the Java or ASP.Net developers out there, but what about everyone else? Yes you - JavaScript, PHP, Python, and even Ruby coders! What are you guys looking for from a Search API? REST, JSON, ASCII? We’re all ears…

-- Nathan Buggia, Live Search Marketer

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Comments
  • Hagrin
    2/6/2007 9:22 PM

    Thank you for releasing such a powerful search SOAP API while other major search engines cease support for theirs.  It's great to see a company continually innovating as opposed to taking away access in order to increase profits.

  • Tim_J
    2/7/2007 5:41 AM

    Hello,

    I'd like the terms to change and the ability for us to store addresses retured which we have ownership of.

  • Search Engine Roundtable
    2/7/2007 7:52 AM

    The Live Search Blog announced that they have renamed and taken out of beta, their search API the other day. The new name is Windows Live Search API, lovely. They also gave it a bit of an upgrade, adding: More...

  • Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing
    2/7/2007 9:39 AM

    The Live Search Blog announced that the Live Search SOAP API is now out of beta. In addition, they added some new features including more languages, increased search results, enhanced search tags, more local options, improved phone results and more coding

  • Website Magazine
    2/7/2007 10:05 AM

    Microsoft announced they are taking their search API out of beta. This release, dubbed Windows Live Search...

  • Joel
    2/7/2007 11:39 AM

    Um... The only code samples I see are in C#... Hint: There's more than one language out there...!

  • Joel
    2/7/2007 11:42 AM

    ...and you can use SOAP in Perl and PHP too...!

  • alexbarnett.net blog
    2/7/2007 2:13 PM

    Nathan Buggia has announced news that the Live Search SOAP API is now out of beta. Interesting question

  • Chad
    2/10/2007 2:02 PM

    JSON services would be great!!

  • LiveSide - News blog
    2/11/2007 11:39 AM

    Here's a few things relating to Search that caught our eye this week: SearchEngineLand has a detailed

  • John
    2/17/2007 11:03 AM

    A JSON version ala Yahoo Search API would be very nice. I see that you mentioned that in the post... any ballpark timeframe?

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