rm007's Journal: And now for something completely different... Google food

Some of you may already be familiar with Cookin' With Google , an application program interface for Google from Researchbuzz.com. It was mentioned in the March Wired magazine (... yes, I do subscribe, it's only ten bucks and is good for browsing on weekends between kids' basketball, soccer, baseball etc. games). You enter in whatever ingredients that are lying around the kitchen and it delivers recipes that use them.I ran a few test baskets through it and compared the results with simply googling the same search terms and low and behold, it did return just recipes rather than the mixed bag of menus, cooking sites, restaurant sites etc. that Google returns. Finally, something that might be useful on the WWW - new to me, although I realize that participants one particular recurring JE series may already be using it.

25/02/04 UPDATE: when this JE was posted, the Wired News site was still featuring the Feb issue of the magazine. They have now put a link to the March issue with the special section on Google that this came from. Given how anything to do with Google seems to make it to the Slashdot front page eventually, this will be there in a couple of days.