A lightning presentation from The Guardian's November 2008 Hack Day, illustrating 8 useful search APIs for hacking

1. SEARCH APIs [email_address]

2. GOOGLE AJAX API http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/

3. GOOGLE AJAX WIZARD http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/wizards.html

4. GOOGLE CUSTOM SEARCH ENGINE http://www.google.com/coop/cse/

5. YAHOO! BOSS http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss

6. YAHOO! BOSS http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss

7. YAHOO! SEARCH MONKEY http://developer.yahoo.com/searchmonkey

8. YAHOO! SEARCH MONKEY http://developer.search.yahoo.com/wizard/

9. YAHOO! TERM EXTRACTION ENGINE http://developer.yahoo.com/search/content/V1/termExtraction.html

10. OPEN CALAIS http://www.opencalais.com

11. [email_address] Grab me for: Questions about search, usability, social media To talk through hack ideas Diagrams and flow charts that feature little Lego men