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Get the exact time and date for anywhere on earth with this search engine. Results are plotted on a map along with details on timezone, daylight savings time and other data.
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By combining weather camera data of the AWS WeatherBug network, www.instacam.com, with Google maps, Brady Davis created a handy way to find US web cams.
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Allows users of flickr and 23 photo services to mash up their images into an interactive web page with the option of including Google Maps or Second Life Maps as a background.
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The Melissa Cloud Telco SmartSearch API enables qualified customers to perform electronic searches into the Melissa telephone listings database. The service is provided over HTTP or HTTPS and all... | Data | 07.05.2018 |
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Google Search Indexing RPC |
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The Google Indexing API provides a way to submit a limited number of URLs to crawl and index. It describes one event in the life cycle of a web document, Gets metadata about a web document, lets... | Search | 06.27.2018 |