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Even though totalhits=112063, the same results are returned after start=1000, getting count=50 at a time. I am getting the <nextpage> inner text for each new...
12 Feb 5, 2009
8:59 pm

Vik Singh
vik_k_singh
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http://boss.yahooapis.com/ysearch/images/v1/%22disney%20movies%22+-funny?format=xml&dimensions=medium,large,wallpaper,widewallpaper returns 13,140 results, but...
8 Feb 4, 2009
10:22 pm

Ted Diamond
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The Yahoo Developer Network has just released two videos about Boss for information and inspiration. Vik Singh: ...
4 Feb 4, 2009
9:23 am

Ashwin Rao
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Hello all, I have a question. It is said to get BOSS AppId, first, we need to fulfill the registration form, and in this form there is 'Your web app site url'...
4 Feb 3, 2009
5:42 pm

Vik Singh
vik_k_singh
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Are there any problems with BOSS right now? I see unusually high response times (as long as 20 seconds)....
4 Jan 30, 2009
10:21 am

ailtabaoth
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Hi everyone, I set up a dutch search engine with a PHP file I dug up off the internet and it works great for regular search. But I want to offer my users image...
3 Jan 30, 2009
12:28 am

jrmacniel
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I am a newbie, here is my 1st question to the BOSS team: ... sell, transfer, sublicense <b>or otherwise disclose<b/> Your private key to any other party. ... ...
7 Jan 28, 2009
7:11 pm

Vik Singh
vik_k_singh
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hi, I'm new to yahoo Boss. I've been playing around with BOSS and noticed that when using "OR" in the query it doesn't seem to work. Here's an example, when I...
4 Jan 28, 2009
5:36 pm

Ted Diamond
mrteddiamond
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Seems none of my HTML gets through, all tags are just escaped... Is there a "special" yahoo-groups-only HTML"? I looked at ...
1 Jan 28, 2009
6:46 am

ochichinyezaboombwa
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Here's an interesting article on AltSearchEngines http://www.altsearchengines.com/2009/01/26/google%e2%80%99s-downfall-is-the- rise-of-vertical-search/ Yahoo!...
2 Jan 27, 2009
11:15 pm

ken.kwasnicki
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Guys, Any idea when BOSS API will allow video search? Regards, Subhankar...
1 Jan 25, 2009
4:54 pm

subhankar_ray
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Folks, I have pieced in this experimental extension for Firefox backed by Yahoo BOSS API. Feel free to try the extension, rate / add your comments, thoughts...
1 Jan 24, 2009
8:13 pm

Santthosh Babu Selvad...
santthosh
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I'm heavily using the inurl: filter for our site search implementation using BOSS. The returned results are great, however I'm noticing that the keywords I...
4 Jan 22, 2009
11:44 pm

Yogish
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I noticed today several 403 and 503 errors (the latest was about an hour ago). Any explanation or cause for these errors? Yannis....
2 Jan 22, 2009
9:43 pm

Yannis Pavlidis
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Hi BOSS team, will there be more countries supported in future? Right now countries like Poland, Portugal and China are missing. Is that going to change? Best,...
3 Jan 22, 2009
5:50 pm

Yogish
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Greetings, I don't get lang=se to work. Region works but not lang, it doesn't seem to display only swedish results, but a mix of swedish and english? Why does...
8 Jan 21, 2009
5:38 pm

Ashim Chhabra
ashim
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Hi, I see that we can use the mashup framework's sql-like syntax to order search results by date, but I'm wondering if this is possible with a parameter to the...
1 Jan 19, 2009
10:05 pm

bjorn
bjornblog
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When I use a deep url in the 'sites&#39; argument it seems to only restrict my searches by the root domain. eg. sites:domain.com/directory returns results from all...
1 Jan 16, 2009
6:45 pm

rmpresco
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Boss Developers, The "fry's ad" bug is fixed. As suspected special characters like single or double quotes were getting mangled mid-stream in the processing....
1 Jan 15, 2009
5:52 pm

Ashim Chhabra
ashim
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When my news result set displays the second page of results (this is the last page), which is 10 - 18, I get the below URL for the prevpage. It seems to be...
2 Jan 15, 2009
3:36 am

Mithun Ashok
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Hell guys, This is very good script for enable search features on our website. But i m facing a problem about pagination. How it will implemented. Actually i...
2 Jan 14, 2009
6:22 pm

dmontal2
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Is there any documentation available on BOSS versioning? I noticed that the fields= parameter was recently discontinued. Are notices of such changes (to...
5 Jan 14, 2009
12:33 am

Vik Singh
vik_k_singh
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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....
4 Jan 12, 2009
7:36 pm

major_tom_2010
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I can't verify if the clickurl problem I've found is Sprint's Samsung Instinct specific or not, it's the only phone I have to test with. When I click on a...
2 Jan 12, 2009
6:04 am

Vik Singh
vik_k_singh
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If you try the search http://boss.yahooapis.com/ysearch/images/v1/notorious+-funny?format=xml&dimensions=medium,large,wallpaper,widewallpaper, and then go to...
1 Jan 9, 2009
6:43 pm

Ted Diamond
mrteddiamond
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Hello again, is it okay to use the API to build a search interface like search.yahoo.com (as an own branded Yahoo) or is it only allowed to use it for special...
2 Jan 8, 2009
3:21 pm

dmontal2
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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...
4 Jan 8, 2009
12:43 am

Vik Singh
vik_k_singh
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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...
2 Jan 8, 2009
12:22 am

Ted Drake
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Hi, I send the following request: ...
4 Jan 8, 2009
12:12 am

dmontal2
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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...
5 Jan 7, 2009
1:33 pm

adambengur
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