Rocketinfo Inc. (www.rocketinfo.com), a leading international supplier of search technologies and real-time news, business information and competitive intelligence solutions to corporations, governments and professional service firms, announced on December 14 the release of the preview version of the RocketNews Search Application Programming Interface (API). The Rocketinfo Search API provides independent software vendors (ISV’s) and business partners an opportunity to integrate search tools that provide access to millions of current news and business articles updated in realtime and create new market opportunities for their products and services.
Rocketinfo is the first search engine to release a "news and business information" search API for general use. The Java-based RocketNews Search API is designed for companies creating applications that require embedded search functionality and real-time access to current news and business information. The technology provides access to the 11 000-source RocketNews database. The database includes Newspapers, Web-only News Sites, Newswires, Traditional Media/Broadcast Web Sites, Corporate Web Sites, and Government & Regulatory Institutions. The API supports the ability to create keyword and phrase searches. In addition, it also supports the use of parametric controls to limit results based criteria such as content type, location, and date range.
