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		AznHisoka on Dec 19, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Future of APIs: APIs aren’t the endgame they w... why is Google search lousy for API discovery? If I search for email sending Api, I get results for MailJet and SendGrid - relevant ones. If I search for entity identification api, I get AlchemyApi back - also relevant.

zdne on Dec 19, 2016 [–]

The results are relevant only if 1. the name of API contains the term or affordance you want to use 2. you are a human being (you cannot perform such discovery as a machine)

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