Yahoo! Search BOSS
Yahoo! Search BOSS (Build your Own Search Service) is a Yahoo! Developer Network initiative to provide an open search web services platform.[1]
Contents |
[edit] Description
The main goal and idea of BOSS is to give users, in this case developers, access to the Yahoo! Search index for a small fee.[2] The results can be supplied into the developer's website or program so that they can manipulate the resources according to their product's requirements. BOSS allows the results to be returned in XML, JSON, HTML, text and also allows the comprehensive search feature allowed in Yahoo like pulling the results by pages, searching inside PDF, etc. The ranking of the websites for a search term is same as the Yahoo! Search ranking since both of these are pulling from the same index and ranking.
One of BOSS's key differentiators was the free use of BOSS as a white label, no ads required service. By using Yahoo's search engine, which has millions in R&D invested in it, web developers are able to get much higher quality results than if they built their own search engine. On Aug 17th, 2010 Yahoo stated that BOSS would require some sort of ad or fee-based model to sustain itself.[3]
[edit] Usage
According to Yahoo! press meeting, there are 30 million queries a day being run through BOSS powered web search pages.[4]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 |
This World Wide Web-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
