Nice Usage Example: What's that song?

[Robert Synnott]

Hi,
Here's an example of Google Web API in action; a page which, when
given some song lyrics, returns the name and artist of the song.
http://www.synnottsoftware.com/songsearch Try it out! Not foolproof
yet; please report any problems you have.
Thanks,
Rob.

[Frederik De Bleser]

> given some song lyrics, returns the name and artist of the song.

Interesting example. Care to comment on the algorithm? What sites do
you search lyrics for?

Regards,

Frederik

[Robert Synnott]

fred...@pandora.be (Frederik De Bleser) wrote in message news:<d5f54400.04040...@posting.google.com>...

Is very simple; it prepends "lyrics " to the search string supplied,
and knows how to parse the titles of about 20 big lyrics sites (they
tend to be in a format along the lines of "<lyricssite> - <title> -
<artist>" or somesuch. It only shows results from sites it knows
about, so it's a bit easier than wading through the results of the raw
google search. Was very quick to make.
Rob

[xun]

what do you mean by "the titles of about 20 big lyrics sites"?

What constitutes title of a resultelement

By the way, why Google would turn out some pages that are not on web server at all?

thanks,

xun

synn...@tcd.ie (Robert Synnott) wrote in message news:<a0e22b2c.04041...@posting.google.com>...

[Robert Synnott]

xd...@mcic.org (xun) wrote in message news:<f08e80b0.0404...@posting.google.com>...

> what do you mean by "the titles of about 20 big lyrics sites"?
>
> What constitutes title of a resultelement
>
> By the way, why Google would turn out some pages that are not on web server at all?
>
> thanks,
>
> xun
>
>

The API returns the page title, the url and a bit of content for each
result. These titles are generally in a standard format, so the
program looks at the URL, sees is it a site it knows; if so, it parses
the title, otherwise it ignores it.
Rob.