The Google Prediction API can be used by almost any app to recommend the useful, extract the essential, and automate the repetitive. For example:

• Recommend a new movie to a customer.
• Identify most important customers.
• Automatically tag posts with relevant flags.

For example, Ford Motor Co. Research is working to use the Prediction API to optimize plug-in hybrid vehicle fuel efficiency by optionally providing users with likely destinations to choose from, and soon, optimizing driving controls to conserve fuel. Because the API is a cloud-hosted RESTful service, Ford has been able to access its computationally-intensive machine learning algorithms to find patterns that rank potential destinations based on previous driving paths. Ford will be demonstrating their work at the API’s I/O Session.

For more info see:

http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2011/05/google-prediction-api-helps-all-apps-to.html

In Pingar’s case, its API will allow a company’s existing software programs to work with Pingar’s advanced data analysis and search technology to manage the company’s unstructured electronic data. Unstructured data can include: documents, webpages, emails, news or any kind of text. Companies will be able to review massive amounts of data with the touch of a button, rather than having the staff do these tasks by hand – saving valuable time.

From March 8. Pingar’s API will be available free to software developers for a limited development period to enable developers to work with Pingar’s tools to build specific solutions for their clients.

With Pingar’s API companies can utilise:

• Rapid Discovery – a tool that can be added to existing search engines for rapid query refinement and results assessment.
• Entity Extraction – a suite of cutting-edge tools that turn documents into useful lists of entities including people’s names, telephone numbers, credit card numbers and organisations.
• Content Analysis – provides precision key-word extraction and on-click document summarization and sanitation.

Pingar API tools will help companies make better sense of the data they own and deliver smarter, time-saving search and data analysis.

You can find all the information at http://www.pingar.com