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Yahoo to Enable Custom Semantic Search Engines
ReadWriteWeb —
... Yahoo is bringing together two of its most interesting projects today, Yahoo BOSS (Build Your Own Search Service) and SearchMonkey, its semantic indexing and search result enhancement service. There were a number of different parts of the announcement - but the core of the story is simple. ...
Yahoo Upgrades BOSS, Asks For Pennies In Return
WebProNews Feed —
... Developer-friendly start of a business model The idea behind Yahoo BOSS (Build your Own Search Service) is to let developers combine Yahoo's search index with their own applications. Now, a few tweaks should improve the process, and Yahoo has also made it more "professional" by moving away from the idea of offering everything for free. Let's start with the stuff that is best for users. Ashim Chhabra wrote on the Yahoo Search Blog , "Perhaps the most important component of what we're releasing today is access to SearchMonkey structured data through the BOSS API. The primary ...
Yahoo tries turning BOSS into search cash cow
Webware.com —
... Yahoo will charge for use of the BOSS API (application programming interface), the service by which other Web sites can extract Yahoo's search data then repurpose it to their hearts' content, according to a blog post by Ashim Chhabra of Yahoo's Search BOSS team. Previously, the company had planned to make money from BOSS by requiring outsiders with high-traffic sites to show Yahoo search ads next to their results. ...
Yahoo DIY Search Gets A Business Model
TechWeb —
... experiment in search of a business model. In a blog post , Ashim Chhabra of the Yahoo Search BOSS team explained that Yahoo's rationale for actually wanting to be paid for its work. "First and most importantly, we're hard at work on a number of technologies that will enhance both the functionality and performance of BOSS, and usage fees will help support this development," he said. "For example, once we introduce pricing, developers will be able to request 1000 results in a single ...
Yahoo DIY Search Gets A Business Model
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs —
... experiment in search of a business model. In a blog post , Ashim Chhabra of the Yahoo Search BOSS team explained that Yahoo's rationale for actually wanting to be paid for its work. "First and most importantly, we're hard at work on a number of technologies that will enhance both the functionality and performance of BOSS, and usage fees will help support this development," he said. "For example, once we introduce pricing, developers will be able to request 1000 results in a single ...
Yahoo’s new BOSS: another tool to milk pennies out of search?
Between the Lines —
... In a sense, Yahoo is going back to basics by tapping the search index itself to be the core of a new business strategy. The company said today that it plans to impose a pricing and usage structure on its ...
Yahoo! BOSS: Now Actually Good for Google
SitePoint —
Yahoo! today pushed out a major update to its Build Your Own Search Service (BOSS). While the press has been mainly focused on the new pricing for search engines that generate over 10,000 queries to the API per day, the most important parts of the announcement are the new availability of semantic markup data in the BOSS API, and the open monetization model.
First, Yahoo! announced that it is adding access to the structured data gathered by its SearchMonkey service to developers via the BOSS API. That means that developers can now use BOSS to build ...
Yahoo! BOSS features expands; Releases Structured Datam Open Monetization and more
D' Technology Weblog —
... Yahoo! has announced new features to their Build Your Own Search Service (BOSS) platform as well as usage fees. They will now begin charging developers, the charges kick in only once queries exceed 10,000 BOSS API calls per day. The pricing will go into effect next quarter. ...
