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Image search?

Looks like my posting about Image Search was deleted (not sure why).

All I'd like to know is this: when, if ever, will image search be implemented?

Thank you.

mister_ray

Brendan Grant:

Thanks for the reply. I think you are confusing the use of the MSN search web page with the utilization of the MSN API services. This forum used to be about development using the Microsoft MSN (now Live) programmatic API, not simply using the Live search web page. Just because they have a button on their search page doesn't mean it's available in their API.

Last time I checked, the API still didn't support image search. Just wondering when the image tag will be available within the API.

Thanks.

mister_ray

Something to keep in mind is that MSN is outsourcing their image search to Picsearch.com. Since they are not doing their own indexing, its doubtful they would provide an API to access Picsearch data.

Frank

fmccown

Frank,

Thanks for the tip. This may very well be the reason why they have yet to provide this API. Although, when this group was first created, some of the Microsoft API team would post here, and they did indicate that image search was coming.

I get the sense that the API services idea is no longer a priority inside Microsoft. Too bad. Competition is good, but Microsoft never really produced an API that could go head to head with the Yahoo API.

mister_ray

I agree that the Yahoo API is currently the best for web search. I bet once MSN starts indexing their own images, we'll see an API for it. One thing the MSN API has going for it though is that it allows 10K queries per day compared to Yahoo with 5K and Google with 1K.

Frank

fmccown

I think Yahoo must've lowered their limit. I think they were once 10k. But, it doesn't matter much since, like MSN Live, this number is linked to an IP address. Which means I could publish an app and each installation will have 5K hits per day.

I have no idea what Google is thinking by limiting their hits to Developer ID. That means that an entire deployment of an app, regardless of users, only has 1K hits per day. That's just useless.

mister_ray

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