What’s Being Built with BOSS
- Posted August 7th, 2008 at 9:00 am by Yahoo! Search
- Categories: BOSS
It’s been about a month since Yahoo! Search BOSS launched, so it seems like an opportune time to look at some of the mashups and search products that have been built using the BOSS APIs & services. As we’ve said before, our goal with BOSS is to remove as many of the barriers as possible to creating new search products. By providing deep access to Yahoo! Search’s investment in engineering, sciences and core search infrastructure and removing key usage restrictions, we are encouraging a whole new level of innovation in search experiences. We are very excited to see the diversity in products that many of you have already created. What follows is just a small sample of what’s being built — we’ll post again soon with a bunch more.
4HourSearch — Built by Sam Pullara, 4HourSearch is a demonstration of the power of Yahoo! Search BOSS combined with a slick user interface. Aptly named, it took Sam four hours to build the site using a combination of the BOSS API and YUI design tools.
PlayerSearch — Ted Kasten and team are building a sports search engine that pulls in content from a host of sources, including BOSS. Fantasy sports fanatics, check it out here.
NewsLine — As part of the Daylife Developer Challenge, the folks from Dipity built a mashup using their timeline API, Daylife’s news API and the BOSS API. The result is a really interesting way to visualize news for any topic. Congrats to the Dipity team on winning the BOSS mashup prize!
Tianamo — Tianamo is a 3D search visualization early prototype built by Lachlan James. It maps the relationships between the search results from the BOSS API and displays them visually. To check it out, you’ll need to be running Windows with Java 1.6+.
As you can see, the possibilities for creativity and innovation in search are almost endless. If you’re building a mashup or product using BOSS, make sure to tag it with “bossmashup” on Delicious so we and the rest of the world can discover it.
The BOSS team
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NICE! does this have a instruction on how can w put it in our site? well since i really love poll’s and 2008 election is nearer and its a hot issue especially the taxes..well i just found a video clash in http://pollclash.com
I recently made a custom site search with BOSS and PHP. You can read about it here and get the code:
http://marcovitanza.com/blog/10
This is perfect for letting users search your website.
So I am a bit puzzled here…the Newsline implementation DOES feature ads.
I thought the monetization of BOSS was “coming” ?
Or is it you can monetize the flow on your own ?
I really like the player search site. They all show the potential and I hope Yahoo (you) can find a way to monetize off this as I don’t see how this helps the stockholders (me).
But I like the technology and hope the business model is as well done. Kudos.
NICE! does this have a instruction on how can w put it in our site? Thank you
Got some really cool effects, how can we add to our site?
Great work! This data will help me when building and growing my site.
Yahoo BOSS is by far the best API I’ve ever worked with.
Tonight we’re launching xrrg in alpha; an engine that utilizes boss for tailored results. In the next couple days we will be launching 10 more verticals for people with interests other than web 2.0 and technology.
Please have a look at xrrg in action:
http://xrrg.com/?s=apple
Thanks,
Brandon
I really like the player search site. They all show the potential and I hope Yahoo and http://www.fiyat.tv (you) can find a way to monetize off this as I don’t see how this helps the stockholders (me).
Is anyone maintaining a directory of BOSS built engines? If so, can you post the URL? I’ve seen a couple for CSE’s, like cselinks.com, but none for BOSS engines.
Got some really cool effects, how can we add to our site?
Thank you!!, Got some really cool effects, how can we add to our site?
Custom Search with Yahoo BOSS
Hi I also have a search engine based on Yahoo Boss. You can download the PHP script from my blog if you want.: http://www.subscribetomyblog.com/spotlight/yahoo-boss-php-code-examples-are-hard-to-come-by. Do you by the way have a PHP script for image search with Yahoo Boss?
Got some really cool effects, thank you, ı love yahoo…
This is the search engine I made with Yahoo Boss http://www.zoekzoeki.nl the code can be downloaded from my blog as stated above: http://www.subscribetomyblog.com/spotlight/yahoo-boss-php-code-examples-are-hard-to-come-by
The BOSS project looks promising. If yahoo can stay afloat long enough to see it through