Hi, I want to build a search engine for my website. But I do not want the content to be indexed by Yahoo search. Basically the search function would retrieve...
Look for more information on the Vertical Lens option of Yahoo! BOSS in the near future. It's used on TechCrunch.com and is being developed with other users....
Does your website currently have a search of any sort? In order for information to be searched from a database, the information needs to be searchable some...
Hi, continue to receive complaints from my users about the following issue: If I search for "New Yealand" at Yahoo.com I see to following message: "We have...
Hello Robert. There are currently no plans in the immediate future, both to add non-US regions to the existing Y! Local API (http://local.yahooapis.com), as ...
Hi Christian, The results look consistent with yahoo.com but it would be helpful to BOSS developers to include some kind of notification. I'll add it to the ...
These are all fair and reasonable questions and we¹ll make sure to address them in the transition to fees and monetization. Look for a some messaging in the...
Cuoka, If this issue is still not resolved, you might want to try all of the following: [1] Provide examples (here in the user group) of any BOSS queries which...
Hi, Is there a way to restrict the search to only show those from certain sites? For example, I would like to restrict the search results from amazon, zappos,...
Dear Administrators, I am the web developers of a university in Hong Kong. We have just noticed about Yahoo! Search BOSS service and have the following...
Hi Here are some answers for you 1. You have complete freedom to re-order your results, but this requires your imagination. For instance, I aggregate all of...
fyi update on this.. We've isolated this bug to one of our many tiers within Yahoo's web search index. Minus filtering isn't working for this specific tier...
For #2: Yes, there will be reporting tools to track metrics once fees are in effect. Will provide an update on exact timing as soon as we can, but likely to...
Hi, Is there a way to limit the number of results per domain? So say we search for "java" and the top 5 results are from sun.com and the next 3 are from ...
... I don't think there's a clever way to do this in the API -- you'll have to do that kind of filtering on your end. Note that unless you're using site...
I am using site restricts, however most of the time the query returns multiple from each domain -- definitely not unusual as you mention. Try searching for...
Ted, I brought this same thing up to you through e-mail before and you responded but I haven't got it to work yet so I will show what I have now. The site is...
Right. As mentioned below, if a search uses site restricts, the "try to show only two results per domain" logic gets overridden. If you have only four sites,...
Hiya Christian, Couple of issues here. First, the syntax for the site restrict is incorrect -- the sites parameter doesn't handle subdirectories. The value of...
Dear Yahoo team, I'm launching a search engine backed up by BOSS for the middle east. Now I'm done with developing and I'm about to launch I have come upon two...
Dear Ted, Thanks for you prompt reply. Though it sounds stupid, I would need your confirmation again if we can choose to have NO ads. Coz in the FAQs,...
Hi Chrisitan I had this problem while developing V3GGIE.com. My initial expectation was that BOSS would recognize chef2chef.net/recipes/section/mexican/ as a ...
Hi Eddie Evan Goer is a better source for official statements on Yahoo! BOSS requirements. Don't take my word as the final decision. here's a snippet...
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