Yahoo has been a whipping boy of late.  They turn down $30+ per share from Microsoft, then the market tanks and they are lucky to be hovered in the low-teens.  Google has just put the ixnay on the ad-deal-ay.

Despite all of this, they have fresh API’s that wipe the floor with the top competition.

Let’s start with search.

Google: Corny AJAX Search API – No server-side access without significant hacking and busy work (see http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/documentation/#fonje).

Yahoo: Super Powered Search API – Ala carte formatting.  Full search capability including context searching, images, video, news, local, and more.  Rate limited.

Next episode, we’ll take a look at image search in particular across some other Yahoo APIs and competive options.