Hi developers, I wondered, weather we could exchange some data and tips regarding the speed for the BOSS api. Maybe by doing this, each of us can find ways to...
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Yogish
yogishb
Mar 11, 2009 3:14 pm
Keep alive is turned off on the server side. We have not yet decided on enabling it....
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christian.kroll83
christian.kr...
Mar 11, 2009 4:35 pm
Hi boss team, about 3 hours ago I saw a huge increase in response times, which lasted about 1hour. Can you confirm this, or is it a problem on my end? Best, ...
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christian.kroll83
christian.kr...
Mar 11, 2009 4:45 pm
I just saw that these huge increases actually took place the whole day. Can you confirm?...
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alarnissteve
Mar 11, 2009 4:55 pm
Hi, I would like to be able to show scrolling results like in http://www.yauba.com (for video and image results) For example, at...
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Yogish
yogishb
Mar 11, 2009 5:27 pm
What was the average latency now vs. yesterday?...
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christian.kroll83
christian.kr...
Mar 11, 2009 6:02 pm
Today's average is 1.252s compared to 0.724 yesterday (50,000 queries). We had 4 peaks during the day, where there was almost no response from the Yahoo api....
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tdougherty1247
Mar 11, 2009 6:40 pm
If I query using two similar phrases and the OR operand I'm getting some very unexpected results. (Blanche+Lincoln)+OR+(Blanche+Lambert+Lincoln) for example...
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Ted Drake
t_drake_net
Mar 11, 2009 6:41 pm
Hi Steve You are talking about the good ol' carousel module. Yahoo! not only provides the code but also a lesson on how, when, and why to use this. YUI...
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alarnissteve
Mar 11, 2009 11:03 pm
Ted, you are the Man! Thank you! Steve...
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balancedsearch
Mar 12, 2009 2:10 pm
Not to detract from your query into *why* the response times are what they are, but I'd like to know *how* you measured this. I'm in the heat of getting my...
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leaftechweb@...
leaftechweb...
Mar 12, 2009 2:15 pm
I 've been trying for days now to start using Boss instead of the old search API. All I get is 403 Unauthorised on all of my ID's including 2 registered...
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jamesknibb
Mar 12, 2009 2:30 pm
We're getting almost exactly the same bug happening, if this query is entered : http://boss.yahooapis.com/ysearch/web/v1/tyre?appid=removed&format=xml&v\ ...
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Ted Drake
t_drake_net
Mar 12, 2009 6:31 pm
I'm getting a similar issue. I'm not changing my sites query, but a search for x is great but a search for y is open to the wide web. more specifically, it is...
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jrussbowman
Mar 12, 2009 7:20 pm
I don't know how the original user is doing this, but if I wanted to track this, I'd do it this way Generate a timestamp Fetch the results from Yahoo Compare...
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Yogish
yogishb
Mar 13, 2009 1:04 am
Seems to be fixed now. I am getting the results from the restricted sites....
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jamesknibb
Mar 13, 2009 7:40 am
I'm still getting the same results as before - so doesn't appear to be fixed....
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ochichinyezaboombwa
ochichinyeza...
Mar 13, 2009 7:43 pm
Thanks for your reply Yogish. Related: do you plan on supporting a "batch mode" by any chance?...
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Yogish
yogishb
Mar 13, 2009 8:02 pm
What do you mean by batch mode?...
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Anirudh S
ani86in
Mar 14, 2009 2:34 am
I suppose what he means is putting multiple queries in a single request. something like this : q1="leonardo"+"mona+lisa"&q2="van+gogh"+"sunflower" This is not...
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balancedsearch
Mar 14, 2009 8:35 am
In the last 12 hours, I have gotten the following error from BOSS quite a few times as the sole content of the XML response: 503The request was not completed....
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balancedsearch
Mar 14, 2009 8:43 am
For clarity: My question is not "What are the http error codes?" ...though my sleep deprived question does read that way. I am really after how they look in...
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balancedsearch
Mar 16, 2009 9:47 am
Thanks to jrussbowman for the thoughts on timestamping. It works great! Now, I am having an issue whereby my curl call to BOSS will take either <1s (just fine)...
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John Scharber
jms_scharber
Mar 16, 2009 2:51 pm
Everyone once an a while I'll see a request that takes 22 seconds most are between 1.5 to 3 seconds. I'd blame that on my link at home but coming from our...
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weyandch@...
weyandch...
Mar 17, 2009 2:15 pm
Hello everyone, i'm new to BOSS and trying to retrieve some data which is related to community, groups and other social-network contents. According to the...
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jrussbowman
Mar 17, 2009 4:55 pm
Are keywords for news generated from the full text of the website, or only the abstract? If they are generated from the full text of the website, how reliable...
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Vik Singh
vik_k_singh
Mar 17, 2009 5:08 pm
I tried some sports queries on web (btw you only get keyterms on web) and got the team names in the keyterms list. I believe the keyterms is also rank sorted...
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jrussbowman
Mar 17, 2009 6:07 pm
Ah ok, I'm pulling from news only, so wouldn't help there. I'm already grabbing the actual site content using the url and parsing it to get the team names from...
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inltechlib
Mar 17, 2009 6:31 pm
... I have no idea, but I have the same problem. I am trying to use the boss search api. I am trying to execute a search from inside a corporate firewall....
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Inl Techlib
inltechlib
Mar 17, 2009 6:57 pm
Hi,  Please help. I am trying to use the boss search api. I now have 2 app ids for boss. When I try to use either id, I fail to get results.  I try (using...
