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Yahoo! debuts Search BOSS

July 13, 2008 · Comments 

Yahoo! Search BossLast July 9, Yahoo! debuted the Search BOSS, which stands for Build Your Own Search Service. It builds on the existing Yahoo! Search API, giving you more flexibility with results returned from Yahoo!: no more result limits, no restrictions on presentation (you don’t even have to say you’re using BOSS), and you can manipulate results by reordering them or inserting your own results. A monetization platform will also come in the near future.

When I first heard about this internally, I was excited–the possibilities in my head were enormous: if you have a fabulous idea for presentation, and/or a great algorithm, but you couldn’t crawl the web extensively enough, you can harness Yahoo!’s search index and feed that into your current index. Instant win! I’m psyched I can finally talk about this now, although I probably wouldn’t be the best person to discuss its intricacies.

A few have already implemented Yahoo! Search BOSS, so if you’re looking for what’s out there, drop by hakia (a semantic search engine), Me.dium Search (crowd-powered social search), Daylife and Cluuz.

For more information, there’s Yodel Anecdotal’s launch post, Yahoo! Search Blog’s launch post, an insider’s view on Search BOSS, and of course one should check out Yahoo! Developer Network’s section on Yahoo! Search BOSS.

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Written by Angela Sabas · Angela, a web enthusiast and seasonal writer, has been into websites since 1998, when she was first introduced to the Internet. She prefers to be known as a hobbyist, because even though she works in the industry as a frontend engineer for Yahoo! Southeast Asia, she dabbles in HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP as a hobby. She runs a tech blog and scripts archive with her linkware scripts, a writing/reading blog where she blogs about books and creative writing, a fan domain, and various other odds and ends.