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Thanks. This problem should start going away now. I just added Bing as a live backup, so if I find nothing through my various indexes/channels, it should back fill with a modified Bing call.



I have to say, I'm really impressed by how accessible you are. I mentioned a problem on a Reddit thread a while back and you fixed it immediately as well. Keep doing what you're doing, and don't forget about the little guys when you get big :)


Hah, thx! I can't even begin to express how invaluable feedback has been. I of course want to respond quickly, but it also has the benefit of getting a larger conversation started.


I was quite surprised the other day when someone committing to one of my projects mentioned that they had contacted you about a !clojure search option that does syntax search "better".

As a developer, your accessibility is something I value in a product/project/service. Companies talk about being "agile", but all that means a lot of the time is that they respond with incremental improvement and encourage feedback, only to stonewall most of its momentum throughout the process.

Kudos again. Love your work.


Why did you choose Bing?


You would be surprised but the choie of SaaS search APIs is really small -- even if you are prepared to pay.

Yahoo BOSS (which probably will disappear when Yahoo pulls out of search) and Bing API, basically. I don't believe Ask has an API.

This is a current issue for projects I am working on


Ask does have an API. It's just not open to the public, but is accessible via private agreement.


Because I'm already using BOSS for some things and it will probably become Bing at some point. I'm open to others.




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