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wow, pretty cool. I wonder though is there much use for it outside of aggregate sites like digg? Even for a site like reddit, all the content is already split u
by laserDinosaur 14y ago
wow, pretty cool. I wonder though is there much use for it outside of aggregate sites like digg? Even for a site like reddit, all the content is already split up into categories by users. While this is really cool, I'm not really seeing much use for it. What are some problems that this will solve?
- miket 14y agoThe most pressing problem that the page classifier solves is for the current community of developers using Diffbot. We only offer APIs at the moment for extracting information out of frontpages and article pages (see http://www.diffbot.com/our-apis/ http://www.diffbot.com/our-apis/). While we'll be releasing more soon for the other page types that you see in the infographic chart, this limitation is a problem if, for example, you're passing in a photo page or recipe into the article API--you're not going to get an article back since its not appropriate. Having the technology to visually understand what the types of pages are allow us to route those requests. Beyond that, it's useful for companies that perform analytics or use the information to do better search or auto-categorization.
- hansef 14y agoAre you going to be releasing an events API in the near future? I've had an app idea banging around for a few months that this API would be perfect for.
- miket 14y agoThe next API we'll train an API for is likely image/photo pages. Event pages are definitely on our roadmap, but we've still got work to do there. Could definitely use your help with training data and learning more about your use case.