Hello Eric.

This is actually a documentation issue, and not a technical issue.

You are correct that for web queries, you use an uppercase "OR" between the query terms, such as:

    http://boss.yahooapis.com/ysearch/web/v1/car OR cars?appid={insert your APP ID here}&format=xml

But to accomplish this same boolean query for news queries, you instead space-delimit the terms within parenthesis, such as:

    http://boss.yahooapis.com/ysearch/news/v1/(car cars)?appid={insert your APP ID here}&format=xml

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So I will now file an internal bug report (assigned to our BOSS documentation team), regarding getting the external BOSS documentation to reflect the above.

Thank you Eric for surfacing this, and hope the above helps.
Jay



Eric Iverson wrote:

I get 48093 deephits for http://boss.yahooapis.com/ysearch/news/v1/car? but only 7034 deephits for http://boss.yahooapis.com/ysearch/news/v1/car OR cars?

Boolean seems to work fine for web queries. Am I doing something wrong, or is this a known issue?