I'm going to start a project using BOSS and was wondering if there is anyway to retrieve definitions (something similar to using define: foo on Google), I read...
Hi, Â Â Â Â Â I am developing a search engine using php. I want some of the sites to be filtered in my search result. How can I do it. Can I create a seperate...
Hi, You can use the "sites" parameter or "site:" in query term .. More details at: http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/boss_guide/univer_api_query.html ...
I've read through the documentation, but I think I'm doing something wrong. Basically, I'm getting inconsistent results each time I search. For example, if I...
Thanks for the reply. I gave that a try and I'm still having the same issue. One search brings back 39 total hits and 54 deep hits while the next brings back...
Those numbers are highly estimated and your query is probably hitting different servers with different estimations (depending when they were updated) Just use...
Thanks again for the quick reply! I'll give it a try using the prev/next link within the XML response. However, I'm not sure how that would be any different as...
Well if you always use the link from nextpage then it enables us to update the link to fix any potential issues The pagination logic is slightly biased towards...
Doing this boss query: http://boss.yahooapis.com/ysearch/web/v1/originurlextension:php?count=0&appid=APPID I get a nice estimate for files ending in PHP,...
Hi, I tried accessing BOSS server thru a java code, it seems to work fine .. May be your variable in not urlencoded , the searchParam variable in { public...
I am trying to build a client in Microsoft Silverlight, but unfortunately Yahoo Boss doesn't seem to contain a crossdomain.xml file, as result my Silverlight...
Thanks Mithun Ashok and others. This finally worked. I was making a mistake in not encoding the URLs. kind regards, Titash ________________________________ ...
Thanks We¹ll look into this ... Re: [ysearchboss] crossdomain.xml Security Exception Thanks Well look into this On 4/4/09 2:47 AM, "Santthosh Babu Selvadurai"...
I tried to develop search results such as provided by kosmix.com via BOSS API and couldnt do this due to structure of search kosmix use. any suggestions???...
Hello everyone I will be doing a short presentation at the www2009 conference in Madrid this month about the future of vertical search engines. I would like to...
I don't know if we are vertical enough for you, but check out Duck Duck Go: http://duckduckgo.com/ We are augmenting BOSS results with links & info from about...
Try Truevert (www.truevert.com). This is a green vertical search engine that combines BOSS with our own language modeling. So if you search for CFL, it gives...
Hi It looks like you are prominently displaying wikipedia content, especially in the no-click results. Are you using wikipedia to influence relevancy, such as...
We at Semantinet are developing Headup. Headup is a semantic web Firefox addon that boosts social networking and discovers web content that's relevant to you. ...
BuildaSearch allows anyone to build a custom site search or search engine in minutes. BuildaSearch uses APIs from: BOSS, Live, AWS, DuckDuckGo. Check it out...
Hi, at www.yahoo.de I can select that I want only search results in German. So even if I search for "yes we can" I only receive German results. How can I...
Hi, if I search at us.yahoo.com for "schwummel" I receive the following message: "We have included 'schwimmer' results - Show only 'schwummel'" In the BOSS...
Hi BOSS team, I am thinking about implementing a feature that would be similar to Google's "I'm feeling lucky". This feature automatically redirects the user...
Hi Boss team, We've chosen yahoo boss system because it was advertised to be completely free. And it's the only reason we wanted to start a search engine...
Hi, You can do this by adding quotes around the word : "schwummel" will return exact matches schwummel will return approaching matches regards jmg ... From:...
And also the reason we felt the api calls are not enough for us is because we've implement our solution to search only a set of domains. Because yahoo only...
Hi, Most of the leading search engines serve the same results to all their users, so they target their results to the average user. If you think that you may...
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