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Google’s Gmail is now open for public beta!

Google has decided to open its EMail service “Gmail” to the public today. After more then 2 years of invitation based beta testing, Google finally placed a Sign up link on the Gmail homepage.

2 comments February 7th, 2007

Live Search SOAP API 1.0 Released

The Live.com team has released the first version of the Live Search SOAP API today. A lot of new features have been added to this release since the beta version. Here are the most important improvements:

• Search Results - increased from the first 250 to the first 1,000. And added a flag to disable host collapsing (the suppression of more than two results from a top-level URL) to facilitate the development of accurate paging algorithms.
• Search Tags - enhanced to return results as a comma-delimited list or as an array of name/value pairs. Results can also be filtered by the Search Tag name.
• Local Search – no longer do you need to specify lat & lon for location, you can now city names and zip codes, just like in the web UI. We’ve also added local data support for the following markets: en-AU, en-CA, en-GB, en-US, es-US, fr-CA, fr-FR, and it-IT.
• PhoneBook Results –  now sort by distance and relevance

A more detailed overview can be found at the Microsoft Developer Network.

February 7th, 2007