Current features:
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All the Web services you can find on the Web
A focused crawler scans the Web in quest for services. Service-Finder provides you with the largest collection of Web Services available today, with more that 25.000 identified services.
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Service objects, with all knowledge about services
All you wanted to know about a service and never dared to ask... :-) Service description, service categorization, provider information, operations and their invocation, availability and response time, documentation, users' reviews, and much more.
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Service data as embedded RDFa
For Semantic Web people (and for the machines as well): portal pages embed service data (like name, provider, tags and categories, description, operations, documentation, etc.) as RDFa annotations.
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Service automatic annotation
Our automatic annotator component analyzes the services and their related documents to extract relevant data and service categorization. Most of the data you can see on service pages is automatically gathered by our technologies; see the about page for more details.
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Three different search options
You can try a simple free text search (e.g. search for credit card validation), or browse through the pre-defined service category tree (e.g. select Logistics), or filter services by the user-defined tags (e.g. genetics).
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OpenSearch add-on
By implementing the OpenSearch specifications, Service-Finder keyword-based search can be added to your browser integrated search bar. Add it now!
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Results ranking
Our ranking algorithm orders your search results by keeping in consideration the quality of service data, service performances and users' reviews.
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Results sorting
Are you more interested in service availability, in users' opinions or in response time? Re-sort your search results according to your favorite dimension.
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User registration for personalized use
As a registered user, you can enjoy a lot of functionalities that make the Service-Finder portal more interesting or more tailored to you (see below).
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Collaboration features
Feel free to rate a service, comment your experience with it, add your own tags, add a service categorization (for registered users).
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Service wiki
A wiki fields in which users can add their own descriptions of services enhances the collaboration features and improves the automatically provided service data.
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Service recommendations
While through the search features you get services which are similar according to categorization, tagging or other explicit characteristics, Service-Finder is also able to recommend services on the basis of Service-Finder community, thus showing the implicit similarity of services as revealed by the Service-Finder users' behavior.
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Personalized service recommendations
You can experience a more personalized set of recommendations, based on your profile. Service-Finder analyzes your behavior and your searches to provide you with personalized suggestions (for registered users).
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Service bookmarks
To enhance your experience with the portal, Service-Finder offers you the possibility to save your favorite services as bookmarks, to be able to retrieve them afterwards.
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Service monitoring
Each service is continuously monitored to keep track of its availability and response time (feature kindly provided by seekda!).
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Service try-out
Try the service via an ad hoc form which helps you invoking a service for testing purpose (for registered users, feature kindly provided by seekda!).
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Free trials notification
Our automatic annotation component identifies services that offer free trials, to show you which services you can try for free (most times commercial services that offer free trials - non-commercial services that are free to be used are not marked specifically).
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Tell a friend
Have you found a service that can be interesting for a friend? Instead of copy-and-paste, use our "Send this service to a friend" feature.
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Suggest a service
Do you know a Web Service that is missing on Service-Finder? Suggest it to us!
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Feedback
Your feedback is very valuable for us! Do you have any suggestions, remarks, curiosity? Just let us know.
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Statistics
For curious people, a dedicated page with statistics about the most popular services, the most frequent queries, etc.
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Coming soon:
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UDDI API for machine-to-machine invocation
Service-Finder will expose the UDDI inquiry API and thus act as a UDDI service registry which is populated by our crawler.
expected release: December 2009
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