Key Milestones for SearchMonkey and BOSS

Since launching SearchMonkey last May and Yahoo! Search BOSS last July, we’ve reached some impressive milestones: BOSS is now serving 30 million queries a day, and SearchMonkey is celebrating its first anniversary with 70 million enhanced results viewed daily. Along the way, we’ve made great headway in opening up Yahoo! Search by accelerating the adoption [...]

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BOSS Update: Delicious, Advanced Language, and News Capabilities

  • Posted April 9th, 2009 at 8:00 am by Yahoo! Search
  • Categories: BOSS

Today we’re adding several new tools to the Yahoo! Search BOSS developer war chest: Delicious content, advanced language capabilities, and news sorting functionality to the BOSS news service. Like the BOSS Keyterms, Search Monkey, and Site Explorer features released recently, these new additions will empower BOSS developers with more insight into their search results to [...]

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Search Innovation on Display at Alt Search Engines Conference

The Yahoo! Search BOSS team attended the Alt Search Engines conference in San Francisco earlier this week, and we came away from the conference even more convinced that there’s still a lot of room for innovation in search.  We saw dozens of demos of search engines in various stages of development, many of which use [...]

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

  • Posted February 11th, 2009 at 8:49 am by Yahoo! Search
  • Categories: BOSS

Today, we’re announcing a handful of new features for Yahoo! Search BOSS as well as important updates on our terms of service and pricing. Three New Features Perhaps the most important component of what we’re releasing today is access to SearchMonkey structured data through the BOSS API. The primary way in which SearchMonkey acquires structured [...]

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Q&A with Vik Singh on Yahoo! Search BOSS and Open Web Search

  • Posted February 2nd, 2009 at 9:00 am by Yahoo! Search
  • Categories: BOSS, People, Search

Vik Singh, architect of the Yahoo! Search BOSS team, is the brains behind the BOSS Mashup Framework. Since last summer, he has built many sample apps using the framework. Most recently Vik released an informal mashup (not an official Yahoo! product) called TweetNews, which fuses Yahoo! News with the Twitter API to provide a new [...]

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TechCrunch Crunchie Awards: Vote for BOSS!

  • Posted December 30th, 2008 at 1:14 pm by Yahoo! Search
  • Categories: BOSS, Search

TechCrunch recently announced that voting is open for the Crunchies. Yahoo! Search BOSS was selected as one of the six finalists for the Best Technology Innovation/Achievement category — so we’re asking for your support. Click the badge below to vote for BOSS! Thanks! The BOSS Team

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BOSS Reaches a Milestone

  • Posted December 8th, 2008 at 8:00 am by Yahoo! Search
  • Categories: BOSS
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Search the Web Through a Vertical Lens

  • Posted November 26th, 2008 at 10:00 am by Yahoo! Search
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Yahoo! Search BOSS Hits Tel Aviv

  • Posted November 20th, 2008 at 8:00 am by Yahoo! Search
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Yahoo! Search BOSS Releases Key Terms

  • Posted November 18th, 2008 at 8:00 am by Yahoo! Search
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