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Help Desk
Jun 3rd 2004, 1:40 pm
Has there been any thought on expanding Digital Point's toolset out to the Yahoo equivalents?
digitalpoint
Jun 3rd 2004, 1:46 pm
Yes, and it's not going to happen unless Yahoo offers a free API (which I doubt they will ever do).
schlottke
Jun 3rd 2004, 2:34 pm
Why wouldn't they? Not as developer friendly as google, or what?
digitalpoint
Jun 3rd 2004, 2:40 pm
Well, wouldn't even be possible with screen scraping. My tools have a pretty high traffic volume, and Yahoo throttles queries to it. So it's not possible in that regard.
Help Desk
Jun 4th 2004, 5:19 am
How are other tools bringing back Yahoo information?
digitalpoint
Jun 4th 2004, 8:15 am
Screen scraping... it can be done of course, but they must be doing low volume. If I were to simply add it as a feature of the keywords tracker, it would require about 20 queries per second 24/7 to Yahoo. Since they throttle requests back, it would never work with that sort of volume.
Help Desk
Jun 4th 2004, 8:28 am
Very good point but what makes you say that Yahoo will never offer an API?
digitalpoint
Jun 4th 2004, 8:30 am
They do offer an API, but since Yahoo likes to monetize on everything, it's a six-figure initial cost to use, plus a per query charge.
Help Desk
Jun 7th 2004, 5:35 am
They do offer an API, but since Yahoo likes to monetize on everything, it's a six-figure initial cost to use, plus a per query charge.

Jeez!!!! Yahoo should change their name from "Yahoo" to "FleeceYou".
mopacfan
Aug 6th 2004, 8:31 am
I like "ScrewYoo" better ;)
Will.Spencer
Aug 6th 2004, 12:43 pm
I like "ScrewYoo" better ;)

Good one! :D
Jackobo007
Aug 12th 2004, 3:28 pm
with their attitude I think that "Yo Ho" will fit better ;)