BOSS Reaches a Milestone
- Posted December 8th, 2008 at 8:00 am by Yahoo! Search
- Categories: BOSS
We launched Yahoo! Search BOSS this past July and we just reached a significant milestone – the BOSS API is currently serving more than 10 million queries per day. 10 million in and of itself isn’t particularly significant, but we’re sharing it because we believe growing to more than 100 queries a second in just over 5 months says something about the demand for an open search platform. As a point of reference, the total queries from these developer-built, BOSS-powered search engines would rank ahead of the combined searches done on both Facebook and Amazon, and just behind Ask.com1. Note that because these queries are delivered via the BOSS API and served up by our partners, they aren’t counted as Yahoo! Search queries by comScore or other metrics providers.
Since launch, we’ve been focused on adding features and building up the ecosystem. We’ll maintain that emphasis in 2009, as well as adding monetizing capabilities to the platform. Our plans have been driven by what we’ve heard from developers on our Yahoo! Group and at six hack days held around the world. We still have a great deal of work ahead, but the feedback we’ve received from the BOSS community has validated our hypothesis that there really was a need for a service like BOSS to help power innovation in search.
If you’re interested in checking out what’s been built using BOSS, here are a few places to look:
- Search Blog Posts on BOSS
- BOSS Mashable Challenge entrants
- Mashups tagged on Delicious
- TechCrunch Search
Thanks to everyone in the BOSS community for helping to make this happen and for being vocal about what we should be working on next. Keep it up!
Bill Michels
BOSS Team
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Good to hear that you guys are increasing your share :-)
Congrats to you all at Yahoo! Were really enjoying working with you guys and your technology. Hope you continue to see growth!
For those of you reading this who want to see BOSS implementation in action, come and check out http://www.oneriot.com
Great accomplishment Bill. We have been working with the team so far and its been useful to understand how you guys plan to monetize this. I think advertising related opportunities are interesting but Search as a Service is a very valuable business model you should consider.
This is great! Congratulations to the BOSS team for this wonderful service. I’ve been using BOSS in a service called Sikbox which is a search widget for blogs and sites and it works just great!
I think 9 million of those were me testing my paging code. Still impressive though. :-)
This is great news. Best of luck for the future and keep up the good work.
I believe this is one of the best things going for yahoo right now and hold out high hopes for you guys on BOSS. Like your post says though, can you monetize this? I mean YPN is beta 3+ years, will boss remain a “cool” thing done by yahooligans never to help out the companies revenue?
The potential is scary high for BOSS, but so was YPN.
I wish you luck on this and hope it is highly successful.
The world needs more than just one “G”igantic search engine. Push the envelope, don’t look back, only forward!
Great news. This service will be huge. We’ve been integrating BOSS into our Rep monitor and so far, the results rock!
This is great! Congratulations to the BOSS team for this wonderful service. I’ve been using BOSS in a service called Sikbox which is a search widget for blogs and sites and it works just great!
We’ve been using the Yahoo! search API in one form or another since June 2006, but BOSS has been fantastic! This has been a tremendous initiative and we’re glad to be a part of it.
Congratulations, Bill!
I believe this is one of the best things going for yahoo right now and hold out high hopes for you guys on BOSS. Like your post says though, can you monetize this? I mean YPN is beta 3+ years, will boss remain a “cool” thing done by yahooligans never to help out the companies revenue?
Nice problem ;)
Great news! BOSS provides an excellent service!