Yahoo! Search Blog

Today, the Yahoo! BOSS team is thrilled to announce BOSS Geo, new additions to our Search API that’s designed to help foster innovation in the search industry. BOSS Geo, comprised of two popular services – PlaceFinder and PlaceSpotter – now offers powerful, new geo services to BOSS developers. Geo is increasingly important in today’s always-on, [...]

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Boss.yahoo.com launches with new offerings for site owners, developers and publishers; Yahoo! unveils new updates for the BOSS API When launched, Yahoo! Search BOSS, offered developers a search API with the power, simplicity, and flexibility demanded by the marketplace. Yahoo!’s BOSS API currently enables thousands of customers with “Search as a Service,” used in a [...]

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Yahoo! Search BOSS continues to thrive with today’s introduction of our fifth service, Blog Search (Beta). A custom blog index Developers looking for a blog search API often find the APIs that do exist are providing a variation of a web index. We decided to take a different approach. Yahoo! developed a custom blog index [...]

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We launched Yahoo! Search BOSS V2 in April, and thanks to you, the users, the service has been blowing past our expectations.  Back then, we promised that there was a lot more to come. Today we would like to announce a few updates to the service. Control your daily usage limits Many BOSS developers told [...]

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Rahul Hampole, Senior Product Manager for Yahoo! Search BOSS, recently interviewed DuckDuckGo founder Gabriel Weinberg by email for the Yahoo! Developer Network’s blog. One of the Q&A’s include: How does Yahoo! Search BOSS appeal to a developer like you (both on the product side and the business side)? GW: On the product side, it enables [...]

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The new and improved Yahoo! Search BOSS is here and we can’t wait to have developers try it out. BOSS V2 provides a unique combination of data, display flexibility and monetization to empower you, the developer, to build great applications. BOSS is our way of sharing our cloud and the data in it with you [...]

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The Yahoo! Search team is excited to release the technical specification for Yahoo! Search BOSS v2. We’ve been hard at work getting ready to launch a new version of BOSS (as we announced in October 2010) and last month we provided further details to help developers prepare for the transition. The Yahoo! Search BOSS v2 [...]

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As we announced in October 2010, we are getting ready to launch a new version of Yahoo! Search BOSS in the coming months and will be closing the current version this summer. We are now pleased to provide further details to help developers prepare for the transition, and are planning to provide specific technical documentation [...]

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We are pleased to announce new details about Yahoo! Search BOSS.  Early in 2011, BOSS will transition to a paid model and we will round out the new version with monetization options and advanced security access (oAuth). In 2008, Yahoo! launched BOSS (Build Your Own Search Service) to provide developers a way to leverage Yahoo!’s [...]

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SearchMonkey and the structured Web We’ve just announced an all-new Yahoo! Search experience, with many new features powered by SearchMonkey data.  Since launching our open developer platform in May 2008, Yahoo! Search has enabled thousands of developers to shape the search experience for millions of Yahoo! users. If you are interested in building semantic applications [...]

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