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For example,<ref>{{Cite web|title = What Are APIs, And How Are Open APIs Changing The Internet|url = http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/api-good-technology-explained/|website = MakeUseOf|access-date = 2015-11-02}}</ref> Yahoo's open search API allows developers to integrate [[Yahoo!|Yahoo]] search into their own software applications. The addition of this API provides search functionality to the developer's application whilst also increasing search traffic for Yahoo's search engine hence benefitting both parties. With respect to [[Facebook]] and [[Twitter]], we can see how third parties have enriched these services with their own code. For example, the ability to create an account on an external site/app using your Facebook credentials is made possible using Facebook's open API.
Many large technology firms, such as Twitter, [[LinkedIn]] and Facebook, allow the use of their service by third parties and [[Competition|competitors]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Facebook Developer Docs|url=https://developers.facebook.com/docs/|access-date=2021-02-09|website=Facebook for Developers|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=tonyxu-io|title=LinkedIn API documentation - LinkedIn|url=https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/linkedin/|access-date=2021-02-09|website=docs.microsoft.com|language=en-us}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=About Twitter’s APIs|url=https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-api|access-date=2021-02-09|website=help.twitter.com|language=en}}</ref>
== Open APIs on the Web ==
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