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  • Category: Internet
  • Founded: May 28, 2008
  • Language: English
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Hi Everyone, What's the best language (I'm thinking PHP) to parse XML with? Alternatively, is there a better way to handle grabbing the data returned from the...
3 Jul 13, 2008
6:38 am

Isofarro
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anyone know if BOSS includes related search or shortcuts products?...
4 Jul 12, 2008
10:28 pm

Vik Singh
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Hello, first of all: Thumbs up for this project. Yahoo started something really interesting here. Doing some experiments with the api, I often get many results...
1 Jul 12, 2008
10:37 am

marekgibney
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Is it possible to do boolean search like this with BOSS? (A OR B) AND (C OR D) Thanks, Hao...
3 Jul 12, 2008
10:31 am

Isofarro
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Hi, How to restrict search, to more than one domain. For example, i just want to search in wikipedia.org and answer.com? i have tried this query, but it...
2 Jul 12, 2008
10:17 am

Isofarro
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I tried this URL: http://boss.yahooapis.com/ysearch/web/v1/bisque+site%3Acoffeepottery.com?&format=xml&appid=[my_appid] and I am getting error 400 which would...
2 Jul 12, 2008
7:00 am

Isofarro
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First of all, excuse my english, it's not so polite... ;-) Some other users are posting comments related to legal TOS available for Yahoo! BOSS and didn't get...
1 Jul 12, 2008
12:46 am

malberichp
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I am trying to get Values from the the Parsed XML. I can not figure out the proper format. for example with the developer API this would work: ...
2 Jul 12, 2008
12:21 am

dmontal2
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Been looking into BOSS for the past day, and am really liking what I see! One thing I'm not sure of is how to go about acquiring a developer key. The only way...
4 Jul 11, 2008
8:01 pm

Isofarro
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I just tried running some news searches and it worked great! But how do you return more than 1 result? Is there a more detailed API than this? ...
10 Jul 11, 2008
7:53 pm

Alex Zivkovic
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None of the examples in the documentation include the appid. How does one include the appid in the request? The "examples"; don't seem to work. Can we see an...
3 Jul 11, 2008
7:52 pm

Isofarro
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Your instuctions say to check the "BOSS search service" box. I click on the box and it does not show an x or check-mark - it seems like I can't select it. I...
2 Jul 11, 2008
6:02 pm

Isofarro
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Hey, My idea (Which is already live using my own indexing technologies) requires only results for a select number of domains, would it be possible to input say...
6 Jul 11, 2008
5:57 pm

Isofarro
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Hello everyone. I have a suggestion. I do want to search for different topics, but they could share some results. It would be good to find out, if i already...
1 Jul 11, 2008
3:49 pm

jura0011
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I want to develop an mobile application where user can search for his query using Yahoo BOSS without going to browser. This can be done using Yahoo Search web...
4 Jul 11, 2008
3:39 pm

Bill Michels
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I've tried a search like this: http://boss.yahooapis.com/ysearch/web/v1/siol?appid=XYZ&format=xml&start=0&filter=-porn And I get all 10 results from the same...
2 Jul 11, 2008
1:55 pm

Vik Singh
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I'm completely stumped by an error the BOSS api is returning. I've tried every permutation I can think of, including using example URLs from the docs (with...
5 Jul 11, 2008
6:41 am

Vik Singh
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So I'm curious whether or not the platform will allow us to really reach in and play with the mechanics of search. To give an example, an app I was working on...
1 Jul 11, 2008
2:27 am

emillerpdx
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"BOSS gives you access to Yahoo!'s investments in crawling and indexing, ranking and relevancy algorithms, and powerful infrastructure"; Documentation only...
7 Jul 10, 2008
7:54 pm

anshu bansal
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I have much experience developing with the Yahoo search API. I can help you get a quick start to using Yahoo BOSS for your project. Serious inquiries only and...
1 Jul 10, 2008
6:34 pm

ysrchr
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I'm struggling to interpret this portion of the TOS (a) You shall not refer to the Services, or use or display any Yahoo! trademarks, service marks, logos or...
1 Jul 10, 2008
6:31 pm

michael_buckbee
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I'm writing because I'm trying to figure out if I can legally use BOSS with my startup Watchlister - http://www.watchlister.com. It's basically a web based RSS...
1 Jul 10, 2008
6:29 pm

michael_buckbee
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Hi Guyes, I am planning to launch an Innovative Search Engine Powered by Yahoo's BOSS. I am looking for partner Developers/Business Managers. If anyone of you...
1 Jul 10, 2008
5:55 pm

anshu bansal
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Suppose I have a web site that has a link on a page "Paris Hilton" and that links takes me to another page that has my own content about her as well as a list...
1 Jul 10, 2008
5:46 pm

searchandrew
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I am a bit confused with how to get a BOSS ID. It seems that in the registration page http://developer.yahoo.com/wsregapp/ the BOSS ID option is only available...
2 Jul 10, 2008
2:19 pm

Vik Singh
vik_k_singh
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What other verticals is Y considering? Twitter? :)...
1 Jul 10, 2008
1:29 pm

Colin Steele
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A big big thank you to all the pre-launch participants. BOSS is officially up and off the ground. http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000599.html Ashim Chhabra...
3 Jul 10, 2008
7:04 am

Bill Michels
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Hello, Exciting news of BOSS tonight. I wanted to know if the freshness of the index is the same as in the regular Yahoo! SE? Part of my challenge is that I...
1 Jul 10, 2008
4:37 am

Adi Rubin
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5pm soft launch complete. Announcement to the world at 9pm PDT Thank you all for your participation. Ashim...
1 Jul 10, 2008
1:04 am

Ashim Chhabra
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Thanks everyone for joining. We'll use this group to communicate about changes and upgrades to BOSS and we encourage you to use it to ask questions of us and...
1 May 30, 2008
1:30 am

Graham Mudd
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