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AOL Opens Video Search Engine to Developers

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the make-it-free-and-they-will-come dept.

mytrip writes to tell us CNet is reporting that AOL has opened up their video search engine to developers. This push is being made in the hopes that it will drive more websites into using their service. From the article: "The goal for the APIs is different than the one that AOL had in mind when it opened up a number of its other applications to developers — notably its instant-messaging client AIM and IP telephony service AIM Phoneline. The AIM and AIM Phoneline toolkits were designed to enable modifications to the existing software, whereas the purpose of the new video-search APIs is to spread its video search engine to sites other than AOL."

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  1. Just what I wanted by Somatic · · Score: 4, Funny

    More ways to use AOL services! It's kind of like being given different ways to stab yourself in the eye.

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    1. Re:Just what I wanted by LindseyJ · · Score: 2, Funny

      You misspelled 'coasters and frisbees' ;)

    2. Re:Just what I wanted by The+Great+Pretender · · Score: 2, Funny

      AOL is still in service? I haven't had a CD from them in a good year or two. I thought they'd been run out of business or sold off.

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