[abaer]

Really impressive results. I put in some music reviews, and it did an excellent job of identifying artists, Genres, labels, etc. From an API perspective,there's not much out there that competes with this - and nothing with a modern API.

[typpo]

There are a number of other competing APIs. One of the best is OpenCalais, which is owned by Thomson Reuters[1].

You can demo it with some text here: http://viewer.opencalais.com/

[1] http://www.opencalais.com