KallOut Wins BOSS Mashable Challenge, Socialmention Wins Runner Up
Mashable! — ... A month ago, Mashable and Yahoo! Search challenged the developer community to showcase what they could do with the Yahoo! Search BOSS API for the ...

Yahoo in the Hands of Developers
Mashable! — ... More importantly, you will notice that search is not explicitly included. This is because search is now just another part of their platform. BOSS and ...

See the real size of gadgets with Pective
Webware.com — ... For the time being you're only able to browse through the directory 12 shots at a time. On the horizon is a search tool (powered by Yahoo BOSS) and product categories that will let users browse through items by type. ...

Yahoo Partners With Delver On Search
WebProNews Feed — ... via BOSS along with results created and referenced by the searching user's friends and friends-of-friends. BOSS allows search sites to use Yahoo! search results in a customized way without any Yahoo! branding but still serves Yahoo! ads. Yahoo Partners With Delver On Search"Search is the holy grail of Internet usability, and we are proud to be leading the next generation of search technologies that revolve around indexing the social web," said Liad Agmon, CEO of Delver."Leveraging Yahoo! Search BOSS allows us to keep focusing on social-graph ranking and indexing, while ...

Obama!
Politweets — ... working. It's not all that great at managing mutiple im accounts thou. 4:13 AM Oct 30th from twitterrific in reply to webwednesday @ zuoky was going to try OSX but decided to stick to a Linux and xp dual boot. Will us it mainly for the web. 11:30 PM Oct 29th from Twinkle in reply to zuoky Woowho my MSI Wind is here! 1:00 AM Oct 29th from web @ zuoky build your own search engine utilizing yahoo's technology http://developer.yahoo.com/... 4:27 AM Oct 28th from web in reply to zuoky Get cross ...

Get the Pic? Sure! Guess Phrases using Web Resources
GO2WEB20 Blog — Last week I attended the Yahoo! Search BOSS Hack Day in Tel Aviv. To be honest, the concept of this meetup was interesting, but the content as it presented was pretty dull. One thing was exciting though: The developers contest. Yahoo! encouraged the audience in this meetup, (mostly developers of course), to build products & mashups with their search APIs (what they call: A truly open API with as few rules and limitations as possible). Now to the fun part: Eyal Shahar, my partner at Go2web20 is a very gifted person, and ...

OneRiot (re)Launches to the Public
The Next Web — OneRiot , a ’social search engine that finds the pulse of the web’ launched publicly today. The goal of the search engine is to create a realtime digg or reddit, where the most viewed sites on a topic rise to the top of the results. OneRiot is a rebranding of Me.dium.com (archive), which has installed millions of plugins to browsers tracking their viewing habits. It is built upon the top of the Yahoo! Search BOSS platform. Testing it out, I referenced a few searches against a real time traffic ...

Dr. Larry Cornett on Universal & Blended Search
WebProNews Feed — ... or alerts users to sites with possible spyware downloads, hacking risks, or sites that generate email spam. [Manoj]: According to comScore, Google has continued to get stronger in search market share in the last year. What do the other engines have to do in order to maintain and grow their own markets? [Larry Cornett]: Yahoo! is committed to providing an open, relevant search experience that understands the users intent. That said, we have recently launched a service called Yahoo! Search BOSS an open Web services platform that offers developers and companies the chance to ...

Tutorial: Create a Yahoo BOSS powered Site Search Engine
Digital Inspiration - Technology Blog — ... Enter Yahoo BOSS, a service overcomes most limitations of Google Custom Search. It lets you display search results in the format you like, or add image thumbnails to your results page ( ...

Yahoo! Wants to Power Your Site Search
SitePoint — ... is part of the Build Your Own Search Service (BOSS) platform, and allows developers to create site search engines that go beyond Google’s plug’n'play offering. Yahoo!’s launch partner for the initiative is technology blog ...

How Much Demand Is There for Open Search?
WebProNews Feed — ... A Lot According to Yahoo Yahoo's Build your Own Search Service, otherwise known as "BOSS," is described by Yahoo as "a truly open API with as few rules and limitations as possible. It is designed to allow developers to build search solutions that "can compete head-to-head with the principals in the search industry." ...

Yahoo Boss Hits The Ground Running, Almost As Big As Ask.com (YHOO)
Silicon Alley Insider — ... Yahoo's new Boss search tool for other sites is off to a fast start: The company says it's serving more than 10 million search queries a day via its partners' sites. ...

The Top 15 Web Tech Stories of 2008
SitePoint — ... , a platform that allows developers and site owners to use structured data to enhance search results. Then came the Build Your Own Search Service, which opened up Yahoo!’s search infrastructure and allowed developers to create their own search mashups (including powerful ...

Microsoft's Live Mesh top innovation at the Crunchies
Webware.com — ... the Crunchies Web site and with input from the Crunchies Committee, consisting of co-hosts GigaOm, Silicon Alley Insider, TechCrunch, VentureBeat and advisors. The most surprising winner for the evening was in the Microsoft's Live Mesh, which won in the category best technology innovation/achievement. The competition included Facebook Connect (the runner-up), Google Friend Connect, Google Chrome, Swype and Yahoo BOSS. Given that Microsoft is often vilified by the Web 2.0, start-up community, and ...

Microsoft's Live Mesh top innovation at the Crunchies
Outside the Lines — ... the Crunchies Web site and with input from the Crunchies Committee, consisting of co-hosts GigaOm, Silicon Alley Insider, TechCrunch, VentureBeat and advisors. The most surprising winner for the evening was in the Microsoft's Live Mesh, which won in the category best technology innovation/achievement. The competition included Facebook Connect (the runner-up), Google Friend Connect, Google Chrome, Swype and Yahoo BOSS. Given that Microsoft is often vilified by the Web 2.0, start-up community, and ...

BOSS Developer Fuses Yahoo News With Twitter To Create TweetNews
TechCrunch — Vik Singh of Yahoo’s BOSS team has just launched a new search engine called TweetNews that mashes up Yahoo News stories with some of the hottest topics on Twitter. The result is a news engine that is significantly more timely than common news aggregators like Google News and Yahoo’s standard news site. In his blog post describing the new release, Singh explains that Yahoo News results are ranked solely by the time at which they were published, which is a poor measure of relevance. Some news sites try to measure the ...

Yahoo Prepares To Turn On The Meter For Its “First Web Services Business”
TechCrunch — Yahoo is announcing several changes to its Search BOSS service, which lets developers incorporate web results from Yahoo’s main search index into their own web apps. The biggest of these changes intends to transform one of Yahoo’s most innovative projects into a real business. Since launch, the BOSS API has been provided entirely for free. Now Yahoo is putting in place a freemium model where it’ll only be free for developers who generate fewer than 10,000 queries per day. After that, a tiered pricing model will kick in that charges ...

Yahoo BOSS lets you roll your own search engine
Obsessable News Feed — ... Sure, we know those guys over at Google are pretty smart, but did you ever think that you could put together a better search engine then them? Maybe just customize things a little, so you could get your search results in a format that makes more sense to you? Thanks to Yahoo! you might just get that chance, thanks to the company's BOSS platform: Build your Own Search Service. ...

Yahoo DIY Search Gets A Business Model
TechWeb — Yahoo on Wednesday introduced three new features for Yahoo Search BOSS , the company's search services platform, and perhaps more significantly, a plan to make money with BOSS. BOSS stands for "Build your Own Search Service." It allows Web developers to create unique Web search products using the data in Yahoo's search index. One of the new features is access to ...

Yahoo DIY Search Gets A Business Model
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs — Yahoo on Wednesday introduced three new features for Yahoo Search BOSS , the company's search services platform, and perhaps more significantly, a plan to make money with BOSS. BOSS stands for "Build your Own Search Service." It allows Web developers to create unique Web search products using the data in Yahoo's search index. One of the new features is access to ...

Yahoo’s new BOSS: another tool to milk pennies out of search?
Between the Lines — ... that it plans to impose a pricing and usage structure on its Yahoo BOSS (Build Your Own Search Service) API for developers later this year. Originally, the idea was to make Yahoo BOSS an avenue for ad revenue. In exchange for access to the search index, developers had to place ads from the Yahoo ad network next to the query results on their sites. Under this new structure - rolled out under the new Carol Bartz administration - BOSS developers can tap into any ad network out there. Yes, even Google’s. Currently free, the new fees will only be applied to users that cross a ...

Yahoo! Search Turns 5, Has Tech to Show For It
ReadWriteWeb — It was 5 years ago today that Yahoo! stopped using Google to power its searches and started using its own search technology. Everyone knows that things aren't looking good for Yahoo! in business terms, and the company's share of the search and advertising markets look even worse. But you know what deserves some celebration on this 5th birthday? The search team's work on some really cool search related technologies. Yahoo! Search Monkey, BOSS (Build Your Own Search Service) and Delicious are three big wins for the Yahoo! search team - even if no ...

Weekly Wrapup: Mobile World Congress, Yahoo Search, Internet in Cars, And More...
ReadWriteWeb — ... years ago today that Yahoo! stopped using Google to power its searches and started using its own search technology, the company wrote today in a blog post. Everyone knows that things aren't looking good for Yahoo! in business terms, and the company's search and advertising market shares look even worse. But you know what deserves some celebration on this 5th birthday? The search team's work on some really cool search related technologies. Yahoo! Search Monkey, BOSS (Build Your Own Search Service) and Delicious are three big wins for the Yahoo! ...

Yahoo Inserts Facebook Profiles Into Search Results
ReadWriteWeb — Google may be outperforming Yahoo Search in terms of market share, but with programs like Search Monkey and BOSS (Build Your Own Search Service), Yahoo is still trying to innovate in the search space. Today, Yahoo announced a new feature for SearchMonkey that integrates Yahoo Search with some of Facebook's core functions. After activating the Facebook SearchMonkey app, you can directly add somebody as a friend, or send messages and poke them right from your search results. Sponsor In order ...

It all comes down to ideology
Yodel Anecdotal — ... Ideological Search, built on Yahoo! BOSS, is the result of extensive research conducted by virtually every scientist at Yahoo!. The team applied the latest research from the fields of sentiment analysis, intent detection, eye tracking, clustering and empathic reasoning to create this revolutionary service. We also found that adaptations were required within existing technologies to ensure ideologically-biased results. For example, Pig, the large-scale data processing environment, was not compatible with all beliefs, particularly among vegetarians. As a result we developed a ...

Yahoo Integrates Delicious into BOSS Development Suite
Search Engine Journal — ... Yahoo Search BOSS is basically an open source search platform which can be utilized by developers, start-ups and large companies to mix and mash Yahoo Search into their own custom offering, to foster innovation in the search industry. ...

Duck Duck Go: Silly Name, Interesting Search Engine
ReadWriteWeb — ... Judging from the results we have seen, it seems like Duck Duck Go actually gets a lot of its information from Wikipedia, though it also uses Yahoo's BOSS service to provide users with standard search results when the service can't find better information on Wikipedia. ...

For Yahoo’s New Search, Form Follows Function Follows Form [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... , and to use Yahoo’s search technology to enhance their own products, via the Boss API. Today’s event occurred a week after Google ...

Yahoo's Big Redesign Emerges
WebProNews Feed — ... third-party apps, like with Facebook in the above screenshot. It looks like this provides some additional ad space as well. The app list, which is customizable, can hold up to 36 apps. Think of it basically like having browser tabs (or Firefox bookmarks) to your favorite sites on the front page of Yahoo for easy access. Customization is a direction Yahoo has certainly been pointing in for a while now. We've seen this with things like SearchMonkey and Search BOSS, which allow users to customize search results. What do you think ...

It's Official: Microsoft and Yahoo Announce Search Deal
ReadWriteWeb — ... this agreement means that Yahoo has given up on its search engine business. Microsoft will be able to increase its market share in the search engine and search advertising market. Yahoo will receive revenue from Bing searches generated on Yahoo's sites and become "the exclusive worldwide relationship sales force for both companies' premium search advertisers." What remains to be seen, though, is what will happen to Yahoo's investments in interesting search technologies like BOSS and Search Monkey. Integrating these technologies, which are tied to Yahoo's search ...

Questions not answered on Microsoft / Yahoo deal
VentureBeat — ... states that “The agreement does not cover each company’s Web properties and products, email, instant messaging, display advertising, or any other aspect of the companies’ businesses. In those areas, the companies will continue to compete vigorously.” It seems like Yahoo is saying that Microsoft will only serve the Internet search engine and provide ads against those search results. But what about Yahoo’s BOSS search API? Will it be replaced by a Bing API? Are there smaller companies dependent on BOSS that will now get unplugged? That seems likely, ...

Microsoft and Yahoo: Still a few surprises
All about Microsoft — ... using the best of both companies’ search technologies. So does this mean it’s back to the drawing board for Bing? If not, what will it mean to incorporate and integrate Yahoo search code into Microsoft’s search engine?“Until we can look at the (Yahoo search) code and understand it, we can’t say specifically yet” what we intend to do, Mehdi said. But it’s more likely that Microsoft will be looking to make use of some of Yahoo’s peripheral search technologies and projects, like BOSS (Build Your Own Search Service ) and ...

What Happens to Yahoo's Search-Related Developer Projects?
WebProNews Feed — ... out there, despite the significant amount of information the companies have shared thus far. We know that Bing will become the search engine used in Yahoo searches. We also know that Microsoft will acquire an exclusive 10-year license to Yahoo's core search technologies. So what does this mean for the search technologies that Yahoo has been working on, and has opened up to third party developers? What does it mean for projects like SearchMonkdey and BOSS? It looks like not even Yahoo knows that yet. The subject was brought up on the ...

Questions On the Yahoo Bing Deal
John Battelle's Searchblog — ... - What will become of all of Yahoo's efforts in search, many of which were, philosophically at least, quite promising? In particular, what becomes of Yahoo BOSS? Of Yahoo's philosophy of "open search," ( ...

Four short links: 31 July 2009
O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies. — ... and BOSS they currently do not have anything concrete to tell you. I assume (and hope) that Delicious is a top-level product, not something under "search". (via ...

Yahoo piggybacks on Twitter for updated Delicious
Betanews — ... As Yahoo architect and BOSS team member Vik Singh said, "Freshness (especially in the context of search) is a challenging problem. Traditional PageRank style algorithms don't really work here as it takes time for a fresh URL to garner enough links to beat an older high ranking URL. One approach is to use cluster sizes as a feature for measuring the popularity of a story (i.e., Google News). Although quite effective in my opinion, this may not be fast enough all the time. For the cluster size to grow requires other sources to write about the same story." ...

Yahoo's Delicious adds a little Twitter
Webware.com — ...   by leveraging BOSS to filter for high quality results, as well as stitches tweets to related articles even if the tweets do not provide matching URLs." ...

What Will Become of Yahoo’s Development Projects?
SitePoint — Despite Yahoo’s recent profitability problems, the company has continued to invest in several innovative and technically-stunning projects. These include: SearchMonkey: a system that allows site owners to publish structured data that provides more useful and visually appealing results within the Yahoo search engine. BOSS (Build your Own Search Service): a platform that allows products to utilize the Yahoo search index. YUI (Yahoo User Interface Library): an ambitious JavaScript ...

Revamped Delicious Turns to Twitter for Real Time Search
Webmonkey — ... Also interesting is that Yahoo chose to leveraging its BOSS search tools to build to new Delicious search tools. BOSS undeniably has a very nice search filter API, but with Microsoft’s Bing search technology set to slowly replace Yahoo’s own search engines, BOSS’ future is far from clear. ...

New Web App ‘Makes Sweet Love’ To Bing APIs, Lets You Search As You Type
TechCrunch — ... If nothing else, it’s a reminder that Bing has a solid set of APIs available, though there hasn’t been much attention paid to them recently. Bing is notable for having a less restrictive API than Google — Bing lets you reorder results from the web, while Google does not (Yahoo’s BOSS also gives developers quite a bit of freedom). ...