As a small experiment with Yahoo! API, I came up with Image Aggregator to search images from Flickr and Yahoo! Search. It uses Image Search API of Yahoo! and tag search of Flickr's.
You can see interesting results by searching britney, Sharapova and iPod shuffle. With Yahoo! you can get relevancy of the images and with flickr you can get fresh, folksonomized photos from people.
You have CPAN modules for Yahoo! and Flickr API, but I just coded this aggregator with LWP::Simple and XML::Simple, as their REST API is so simple and easy. As for Flickr API, I have something to complain: their response doesn't have a rich data (like Photo URL, thumbnail URL etc.) and you should construct the URL by yourself or get the data with another REST access, which is not a good thing IMHO.
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