Comments on: BOSS Update: Open Monetization, Pricing, Structured Data, and More

By: Lloyd

Lloyd — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 18:14:32 +0000

Are you kidding me Yahoo? Why would i pay for this service when i can use Google custom search and share in the revenues? Stop trying to re-invent the wheel, you will generate more money in the long run with rev share. You will never learn and MSN is going to kick your ass soon if you keep this up. STUPID!

By: terkoz

terkoz — Fri, 08 May 2009 04:07:58 +0000

I agree that Yahoo Boss should have a pricing scheme to help subsidize the huge cost of the services provided. My main concern as a Boss developer is if Yahoo will offer discounts on volume API calls?

By: Guido

Guido — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 19:13:28 +0000

I’m trying to use the new se_inlink but the omit_inlinks variable isn’t filtering results like it should be.

ex:
http://boss.yahooapis.com/ysearch/se_inlink/v1/www.hidefdvd.com/i/dvd/FOX2257499DVD.htm?appid=YahooDemo&omit_inlinks=domain&entire_site=no&format=xml&count=5

the 1st links all contain the domain http://www.hidefdvd.com even though I say to omit them in the query

By: Ron

Ron — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 18:05:30 +0000

Time will tell.

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 21:38:16 +0000

Why should Yahoo! give this service away for free? It’s up to them to decide how to make money on it, just like it’s up to any of us to decide how we should make money in our businesses.

I may be wrong, but my honest perception of this service is that Yahoo! really believes that making the BOSS service as open, flexible, and available as possible is going to lead to big things for them and the developers who participate.

If they price it too high, that whole concept will fail. If you’re looking for a free handout, you should be knocking on the Feds door. In my experience, if you’re idea can’t make enough money to pay even multiple times what Yahoo! is suggesting, you might as well just link to Yahoo! Search instead of wasting your time developing an unprofitable solution.

Thanks for BOSS Yahoo! — 10,000 queries/day is plenty for me to prove whether my idea is viable, especially since I can do it all without restrictions on delivery to my users.

By: John

John — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:11:27 +0000

First of all I love the yahoo boss platform, but I must say am disappointed with the decision to charge for searches. In all of the previous literature said that we would be able to serve yahoo ads on our sites and share in the revenue. That agreement was the whole reason I (and probably others) decided to make a few search engines based on the yahoo boss platform. There was no downside risk (other that my web hosting payments), and potentially there was great upside risk.

Now I will have to look at my 2 search engines that I spent a lot of time developing and try to determine whether they would be cash flow positive in the event they got a lot of traffic. I may just have to shut them down if they ever got popular. I was thinking about making a few other search engines, but it is now not worth the time to me, as there is now a risk of loss.

In the future, will you be adding the choice to serve yahoo ads and have free searches instead of only having to pay for searches? With this choice developers could effectively limit their downside risk, and have the choice to switch to more lucrative ads in the future if they desired.

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:04:44 +0000

I thought about this a bit more.

We signed up to parter with Yahoo in taking on Google and sharing revenues through the Yahoo adds we provide our customers.

I think if there is going to be a charge there needs to be oppotunity for reward.

There needs to be some way to link the search result to relevant Yahoo adds. Like what happens with Google Custom search. Someone searches throught the custom search box and a relevant ad comes up . At the moment I display ads that appear after reading all the information on the screen not from whats in the search box. You get alot of ads that just are not relevant to what the customer or searcher is looking for. I get ads for the UK when I am have the Indian region. And US ads in the OZ region

Wotuseek.com

By: Simon

Simon — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:11:57 +0000

I thought the whole point of BOSS was to partner with Yahoo and Share revenue adds. Is that still going to happen?

I am sure that would benifit Yahoo and the Site far greater than pay for quiries we can get close to 500 quiries a day and started this to eventually partner with Yahoo. I cant see much benifit with a pay model for us where is the reward for growth.

Shared ad revenues everyone wins

By: 花蓮民宿

花蓮民宿 — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 03:19:12 +0000

How about monetization using Yahoo search ads??

By: Ravish

Ravish — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:39:09 +0000

Why stop the growth of Open platform in favor of restrictive unit based pricing system to make few pea nuts?

Even if Yahoo is able to charge 20% of total Boss platform queries, 2 Million paid queries will only make around $600/day.