Hello, I'm a PhD student working in computational linguistics and would like to know about the possibility of using BOSS service for my research purposes....
We highly encourage using BOSS in research. Our current TOS aims to prevent abuse/support monetization. BTW Check out “&view=keyterms” feature, which...
Hi Vik, ... I can see how the TOS aims at preventing abuse (ne data mining, etc.); I'm less clear on the monetization aspect. The home page states that ...
I meant ³support monetization from an implementation point of view. For example, we ask that your system issue queries in a search fashion (so we can offer...
Vik, Thanks for the clarification. Could you please elaborate on the ... we ... The TOS is pretty clear on how requests should be issued, but does not mention...
Good question :) We¹re working on solutions. Stay tuned. ... Re: [ysearchboss] Re: BOSS for research purposes & ToU Good question :) Were working on...
Ok. I'll stay tuned. Any idea/indication on when the new TOS will be published? The TOS for google's search API is very restrictive: you cannot process the...
The divergence is reduced (not eliminated) if you specify a site in addition to the query terms (barack obama). In this case site:wsj.com and site:nytimes.com....
Hi, We plan to develop a unique search engine based on BOSS and the old search API. But we expect to exceed the daily 5000 rate limit quite quickly - causing...
This node: <dispurl> <b>chezlouloufrance.blogspot.com</b>/2008/<wbr>12/la-fte-du-<b>fromage</b>-< b>fromage</b>-fra<b>...</b> </dispurl> Includes a strange...
Something that we observed is that if you try the same query 5-10secs later the results are typically better and comparable with the search.yahoo.com It seems...
Hi My system is behind the company firewall. I am using Netbeans IDE and I have done the proxy setting in the IDE but still I am not able to get results from...
Hi Anuj, Are you able to get the boss.yahooapis response in a browser? Regards, Mithun Ashok ________________________________ From: ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com...
Hi Yes I am able to get boss.yahooapis response from browser. In my browser I had set the proxy server name and when I try to get response from boss.yahooapis...
Hello, You may need to set the username and password in Netbeans IDE... To get response (access) from boss.yahooapis, it doesn't require anything other than...
Hi, it seems the BOSS API is missing a feature. When I set lang and region to "de", it still shows some English resources as Yahoo Germany does per default....
For each of the BOSS region/language combos we made it a point to replicate the on network Yahoo! Search property index. For the German Yahoo! site they do...
BOSS API does not provide "suggestions" for searches. This functionality is available only on the old API (at least as far as I could tell) - hopefully will be...
About a month or longer BOSS released some parameters which at the time I thought would work something similar to suggestive search, but I can not find the...
Whoa time to call it a day. I meant 571 Million, in-line with yahoo.com. Please let me know if you are still seeing some peculiarities. The "fry's ad"...
Thanks for the link, though it appears that BOSS's keyterms shows related words extracted (?) from each website, while the old API's suggestions shows the...
It seems the fields input parameter is not supported any more and regardless to what I am requesting I am always getting back the title and the abstract...
title and abstract are the only supported fields. These may include html elements including boldfaced markup around keywords. During the pre-launch period in...
Hi, I am currently working on developing a site utilizing BOSS and I have a quick question. When an End User enters a Query on my site I assume it will go...
Hosted on your site You send us the query, we give you the results (xml/json), you wrap those results as you see fit (display/html) and send the resulting page...
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