Contextual Search API from Yahoo - Keyword Extraction for free

I've been playing with some of  Yahoo's search APIs lately.  In particular, I was intrigued by the Content Analysis Service that takes a block of text, along with an optional "helper phrase" to help point to the context of the subject matter, and extracts keywords from it.   I'm always on the lookout for technologies that can help categorize or 'gist'  content.  In particular, the speech-to-text data extracted via voice-recognition from podcasts, videos and lectures is not good enough a transcript to read, but usually is good enough to search.  Is keyword extraction a useful tool for getting the topics from a blob of text?  Try it and see!  

The folks at the BBC certainly found ContextualAnalysis useful for doing research into the connections and relations among public figures and politicans.  Using this service to extract people's names from public documents, the team was able to create "six degrees of separation"-type graphs of "who-knows-whom" (or at least is "associated-with-whom") very quickly and at low cost.  

It took some time to figure out the code for this and get it all to work, but here's an example of it in action.  Here I used the text from my recent post - Digital Asset Management - Some Advice, but you can paste your own in here to try it out.  When you click on Run Query, the data will submit to Yahoo's ContextualAnalysisService via a PHP proxy on my website (to get around cross-domain scripting security restrictions in the browser), and the results will pop up under the form, AJAX-style.  This query uses Yahoo's JSON API, a simple and lightweight protocol for data exchange.  


There's another technique for making these AJAX calls that does not require a proxy - it employs SCRIPT tags dynamically added to the page (inserting DOM elements) with "SRC=" attributes that call the Yahoo API.  The inexplicable problem I found is that this version works in Firefox/Netscape but not in IE.  I'm unable to figure out why, since other sites using the very same code work fine. The SCRIPT element is written to the DOM with a SRC URL which - if I copy and paste it directly into the browser - works. But when I write the SCRIPT element to the page, IE never makes the HTTP call to retreive it. Unfortunately, IE's developer and debugging tools are so poor that it's difficult to find out what's going on.  If anyone has a suggestion, please share it with me.