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#2116 From: "yougoo_pmc" <yougoo_pmc@...>
Date: Tue Sep 1, 2009 7:22 am
Subject: Re: filter=yes don't work with image search
yougoo_pmc
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Hello Jay,

Thanks for your answer,

Philippe

--- In ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com, BOSS User Group Support Team
<boss-usergroup-support-team@...> wrote:
>
>
> Hello Philippe,
>
> The "Offensive Content Reduction" image filter feature for image search
> (activated by using "filter=yes") is being used correctly by you, in
> your below example.
>
> This feature will filter out some adult images, but cannot guarantee to
> always filter out 100% of offensive content.
>
> You can also read this past user group posting on this same topic:
>
>         http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ysearchboss/message/1912
>
> Jay
>
>
>
>
> yougoo_pmc wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I try to filter adult results for image search, but when i use th
> > filter parameter it don't work, i have yet adult result.
> >
> > i use this url :
> >
> >
http://boss.yahooapis.com/ysearch/images/v1/my_query?appid=my_app_id&format=xml&\
lang=fr®ion=fr&start=0&count=30&filter=yes
> >
<http://boss.yahooapis.com/ysearch/images/v1/my_query?appid=my_app_id&format=xml\
&lang=fr®ion=fr&start=0&count=30&filter=yes>
> >
> > Philippe
> >
> >
>

#2117 From: "michael_m_wagner" <michael_m_wagner@...>
Date: Thu Sep 3, 2009 9:37 am
Subject: language parameters
michael_m_wa...
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hi,

I'm completely new to yahoo BOSS. I made some experiments with BOSS, which
worked very well. Now I want to add a "language parameter" to the request-url
("http://boss.yahooapis.com/ysearch/...") in order to make BOSS retrieve results
only of a particular language. I tried to add "&view=French" but it didn't work.

Can somebody help me to find a way to allow users a specific "language search" ?
Hints, Tutotrials concerned with this ?

Thanks in advance for your answers!

cheers,
Michael

#2118 From: "yogishb" <baliga@...>
Date: Thu Sep 3, 2009 4:30 pm
Subject: Re: language parameters
yogishb
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Use lang and region parameter.

http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/boss_guide/univer_api_args.html

For French language, lang=fr

http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/boss_guide/supp_regions_lang.html

--- In ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com, "michael_m_wagner" <michael_m_wagner@...>
wrote:
>
> hi,
>
> I'm completely new to yahoo BOSS. I made some experiments with BOSS, which
worked very well. Now I want to add a "language parameter" to the request-url
("http://boss.yahooapis.com/ysearch/...") in order to make BOSS retrieve results
only of a particular language. I tried to add "&view=French" but it didn't work.
>
> Can somebody help me to find a way to allow users a specific "language search"
? Hints, Tutotrials concerned with this ?
>
> Thanks in advance for your answers!
>
> cheers,
> Michael
>

#2119 From: "iain" <iain@...>
Date: Sun Sep 6, 2009 8:54 am
Subject: Exhaustive search
iaindowns
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Hi, Guys.

 

I’ve an application in which I want to get ALL the search results for a particular search.  For example if the search for ‘black widgets’ has 10 million hits, then I want to get all URLs.

 

From what I can see, I would need to do 200 thousand queries (with start set to0, 50, 100, ..... 9,999,950).

 

First question:  is there any other way of getting this data back which is more efficient?

 

Second question:  With the approach above, there seems to me some scope for missing out results (or duplication).  After all, the request series will take some hours and there is the chance that the index / relevancy calculations will be updated causing overlaps or gaps.

 

In passing, when trying to review where BOSS is after a gap of several months, I found myself confused between the BOSS api docs and the ‘standard’ api stuff.  A search from the boss home page on SDK returned the old api stuff as a top hit, which was confusing!

 

Thanks for your help.

 

Iain


#2120 From: "christian.kroll83" <christian.kroll83@...>
Date: Sun Sep 6, 2009 11:56 am
Subject: The Future of BOSS?
christian.kr...
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Hi BOSS team,

  do you already have some information about what is going to happen to BOSS
after the MSFT takeover of Yahoo search?

We developers really need to know this before putting further effort into BOSS.


Chris.

#2121 From: "iain" <iain@...>
Date: Sun Sep 6, 2009 2:45 pm
Subject: RE: Exhaustive search
iaindowns
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Oh dear.

 

It’s MUCH worse than I thought.

 

If I pick a start point any greater than 1000, then I get ignored and it gives me only the last <N> (e.g. 10) up to 1000.

 

Does this mean that I can NEVER retrieve more than 1000 results from any search?

 

(I’m surprised because AWS search had some features which let you process ALL results.  Sadly it is no longer with us...)

 

Iain

 

From: ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of iain
Sent: 06 September 2009 09:55
To: ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [ysearchboss] Exhaustive search

 

 

Hi, Guys.

 

I’ve an application in which I want to get ALL the search results for a particular search.  For example if the search for ‘black widgets’ has 10 million hits, then I want to get all URLs.

 

From what I can see, I would need to do 200 thousand queries (with start set to0, 50, 100, ..... 9,999,950).

 

First question:  is there any other way of getting this data back which is more efficient?

 

Second question:  With the approach above, there seems to me some scope for missing out results (or duplication).  After all, the request series will take some hours and there is the chance that the index / relevancy calculations will be updated causing overlaps or gaps.

 

In passing, when trying to review where BOSS is after a gap of several months, I found myself confused between the BOSS api docs and the ‘standard’ api stuff.  A search from the boss home page on SDK returned the old api stuff as a top hit, which was confusing!

 

Thanks for your help.

 

Iain


#2122 From: "dinodorroco" <dinodorroco@...>
Date: Sun Sep 6, 2009 8:53 pm
Subject: Re: Exhaustive search
dinodorroco
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i'm pretty sure all search engines do this.  for example, you can't go past page
100 or 1000 with google.  the rationale is that they don't want you to use their
search engine to build your own index, but rather, to leverage their index to
build new search experiences.  why do you want to get all results?  the reason i
ask is because maybe there's a proxy for what you're trying to do that can be
accomplished with BOSS.

dino


--- In ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com, "iain" <iain@...> wrote:
>
> Oh dear.
>
>
>
> It's MUCH worse than I thought.
>
>
>
> If I pick a start point any greater than 1000, then I get ignored and it
> gives me only the last <N> (e.g. 10) up to 1000.
>
>
>
> Does this mean that I can NEVER retrieve more than 1000 results from any
> search?
>
>
>
> (I'm surprised because AWS search had some features which let you process
> ALL results.  Sadly it is no longer with us...)
>
>
>
> Iain
>
>
>
> From: ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com] On
> Behalf Of iain
> Sent: 06 September 2009 09:55
> To: ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [ysearchboss] Exhaustive search
>
>
>
>
>
> Hi, Guys.
>
>
>
> I've an application in which I want to get ALL the search results for a
> particular search.  For example if the search for 'black widgets' has 10
> million hits, then I want to get all URLs.
>
>
>
> From what I can see, I would need to do 200 thousand queries (with start set
> to0, 50, 100, ..... 9,999,950).
>
>
>
> First question:  is there any other way of getting this data back which is
> more efficient?
>
>
>
> Second question:  With the approach above, there seems to me some scope for
> missing out results (or duplication).  After all, the request series will
> take some hours and there is the chance that the index / relevancy
> calculations will be updated causing overlaps or gaps.
>
>
>
> In passing, when trying to review where BOSS is after a gap of several
> months, I found myself confused between the BOSS api docs and the 'standard'
> api stuff.  A search from the boss home page on SDK returned the old api
> stuff as a top hit, which was confusing!
>
>
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
>
>
> Iain
>

#2123 From: "patrickantrim@..." <patrickantrim@...>
Date: Sun Sep 6, 2009 11:48 pm
Subject: Use yahoo logo
patrickantri...
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Can we use powered by yahoo! or Yahoo! search results in our own site?

When people ask how the search results are displayed or where they come
from....can we respond with Yahoo!

How about the media....what happens if asked about where the search results come
from....don't want to violate the tou.

#2124 From: "agaalen" <xxx@...>
Date: Mon Sep 7, 2009 8:20 am
Subject: Get query count?
agaalen
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Hi,

is there a way to get the total count of a search result? (not just the limited
10)

example: I want to get the amount of backlinks for example.com
select count from search.web where query="linkdomain:http://www.example.com"

.. how should look the query look like?
thank you.

#2125 From: "iain" <iain@...>
Date: Mon Sep 7, 2009 9:39 am
Subject: RE: Re: Exhaustive search
iaindowns
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Actually, there are a number of things I want to do all of which require some kind of exhaustive search.


And there are some ‘divide and conquer’ means I’ve thought of which will approach an exhaustive list.  (for example you can do a search and retrieve 1000 hits and use the results to partition the search – for example if you searched for ‘Bush’ you might find cognates of ‘tree’ and ‘president’ allowing you to search for ‘Bush AND tree’ and ‘Bush and President’ and go further that way).

 

In the particular case I have now I think there are some ways of partitioning the search so that the searches mostly return less than 1000 hits.  But the overlap is going to be fierce and the recall will not be perfect.

 

Given that BOSS is charging (or will be charging) for the service, I can’t see any reason for NOT allowing exhaustive search.  There is no way you can build a general search index in this way, the sheer volume and latency of queries would prohibit it.

 

In fact I suspect that the technologies used discard the bottom 99% of search results even before they are consolidated.  In short not even Google or Yahoo can get to the tail of searches!

 

(Please tell me I’m wrong BOSS blokes!)

 

Iain

 

From: ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of dinodorroco
Sent: 06 September 2009 21:54
To: ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [ysearchboss] Re: Exhaustive search

 

 


i'm pretty sure all search engines do this. for example, you can't go past page 100 or 1000 with google. the rationale is that they don't want you to use their search engine to build your own index, but rather, to leverage their index to build new search experiences. why do you want to get all results? the reason i ask is because maybe there's a proxy for what you're trying to do that can be accomplished with BOSS.

dino

--- In ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com, "iain" <iain@...> wrote:
>
> Oh dear.
>
>
>
> It's MUCH worse than I thought.
>
>
>
> If I pick a start point any greater than 1000, then I get ignored and it
> gives me only the last <N> (e.g. 10) up to 1000.
>
>
>
> Does this mean that I can NEVER retrieve more than 1000 results from any
> search?
>
>
>
> (I'm surprised because AWS search had some features which let you process
> ALL results. Sadly it is no longer with us...)
>
>
>
> Iain
>
>
>
> From: ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com] On
> Behalf Of iain
> Sent: 06 September 2009 09:55
> To: ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [ysearchboss] Exhaustive search
>
>
>
>
>
> Hi, Guys.
>
>
>
> I've an application in which I want to get ALL the search results for a
> particular search. For example if the search for 'black widgets' has 10
> million hits, then I want to get all URLs.
>
>
>
> From what I can see, I would need to do 200 thousand queries (with start set
> to0, 50, 100, ..... 9,999,950).
>
>
>
> First question: is there any other way of getting this data back which is
> more efficient?
>
>
>
> Second question: With the approach above, there seems to me some scope for
> missing out results (or duplication). After all, the request series will
> take some hours and there is the chance that the index / relevancy
> calculations will be updated causing overlaps or gaps.
>
>
>
> In passing, when trying to review where BOSS is after a gap of several
> months, I found myself confused between the BOSS api docs and the 'standard'
> api stuff. A search from the boss home page on SDK returned the old api
> stuff as a top hit, which was confusing!
>
>
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
>
>
> Iain
>


#2126 From: "evangoer" <goer@...>
Date: Tue Sep 8, 2009 3:00 pm
Subject: Re: Exhaustive search
evangoer
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Hi Iain,

The maximum query depth is 1000.

Evan Goer
Yahoo! BOSS Team


--- In ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com, "iain" <iain@...> wrote:
>
> Actually, there are a number of things I want to do all of which require
> some kind of exhaustive search.
>
>
> And there are some 'divide and conquer' means I've thought of which will
> approach an exhaustive list.  (for example you can do a search and retrieve
> 1000 hits and use the results to partition the search - for example if you
> searched for 'Bush' you might find cognates of 'tree' and 'president'
> allowing you to search for 'Bush AND tree' and 'Bush and President' and go
> further that way).
>
>
>
> In the particular case I have now I think there are some ways of
> partitioning the search so that the searches mostly return less than 1000
> hits.  But the overlap is going to be fierce and the recall will not be
> perfect.
>
>
>
> Given that BOSS is charging (or will be charging) for the service, I can't
> see any reason for NOT allowing exhaustive search.  There is no way you can
> build a general search index in this way, the sheer volume and latency of
> queries would prohibit it.
>
>
>
> In fact I suspect that the technologies used discard the bottom 99% of
> search results even before they are consolidated.  In short not even Google
> or Yahoo can get to the tail of searches!
>
>
>
> (Please tell me I'm wrong BOSS blokes!)
>
>
>
> Iain
>
>
>
> From: ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com] On
> Behalf Of dinodorroco
> Sent: 06 September 2009 21:54
> To: ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [ysearchboss] Re: Exhaustive search
>
>
>
>
>
>
> i'm pretty sure all search engines do this. for example, you can't go past
> page 100 or 1000 with google. the rationale is that they don't want you to
> use their search engine to build your own index, but rather, to leverage
> their index to build new search experiences. why do you want to get all
> results? the reason i ask is because maybe there's a proxy for what you're
> trying to do that can be accomplished with BOSS.
>
> dino
>
> --- In ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com <mailto:ysearchboss%40yahoogroups.com> ,
> "iain" <iain@> wrote:
> >
> > Oh dear.
> >
> >
> >
> > It's MUCH worse than I thought.
> >
> >
> >
> > If I pick a start point any greater than 1000, then I get ignored and it
> > gives me only the last <N> (e.g. 10) up to 1000.
> >
> >
> >
> > Does this mean that I can NEVER retrieve more than 1000 results from any
> > search?
> >
> >
> >
> > (I'm surprised because AWS search had some features which let you process
> > ALL results. Sadly it is no longer with us...)
> >
> >
> >
> > Iain
> >
> >
> >
> > From: ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com <mailto:ysearchboss%40yahoogroups.com>
> [mailto:ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com <mailto:ysearchboss%40yahoogroups.com> ]
> On
> > Behalf Of iain
> > Sent: 06 September 2009 09:55
> > To: ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com <mailto:ysearchboss%40yahoogroups.com>
> > Subject: [ysearchboss] Exhaustive search
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi, Guys.
> >
> >
> >
> > I've an application in which I want to get ALL the search results for a
> > particular search. For example if the search for 'black widgets' has 10
> > million hits, then I want to get all URLs.
> >
> >
> >
> > From what I can see, I would need to do 200 thousand queries (with start
> set
> > to0, 50, 100, ..... 9,999,950).
> >
> >
> >
> > First question: is there any other way of getting this data back which is
> > more efficient?
> >
> >
> >
> > Second question: With the approach above, there seems to me some scope for
> > missing out results (or duplication). After all, the request series will
> > take some hours and there is the chance that the index / relevancy
> > calculations will be updated causing overlaps or gaps.
> >
> >
> >
> > In passing, when trying to review where BOSS is after a gap of several
> > months, I found myself confused between the BOSS api docs and the
> 'standard'
> > api stuff. A search from the boss home page on SDK returned the old api
> > stuff as a top hit, which was confusing!
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks for your help.
> >
> >
> >
> > Iain
> >
>

#2127 From: "evangoer" <goer@...>
Date: Tue Sep 8, 2009 3:08 pm
Subject: Re: Get query count?
evangoer
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--- In ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com, "agaalen" <xxx@...> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> is there a way to get the total count of a search result? (not just the
limited 10)
>
> example: I want to get the amount of backlinks for example.com
> select count from search.web where query="linkdomain:http://www.example.com"
>
> .. how should look the query look like?
> thank you.

Hello,

The total count of the search result is provided in the "deephits" attribute.
For the syntax, please refer to the documentation at
http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/boss_guide/Web_Search.html#d3e196

Best,
Evan Goer
Yahoo! BOSS Team

#2128 From: "iain" <iain@...>
Date: Wed Sep 9, 2009 10:02 am
Subject: RE: Re: Exhaustive search
iaindowns
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HI, Evan.

 

Could this limit be lifted?  There are all sorts of information gathering applications which would benefit from (much) more extended results sets.

 

Is the limit a technological one (as I mused in an earlier email) or is it a commercial one?

 

Would it be possible to get this limit lifted for special cases?  (me J )

 

Thanks

 

Iain

 

From: ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of evangoer
Sent: 08 September 2009 16:00
To: ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [ysearchboss] Re: Exhaustive search

 

 

Hi Iain,

The maximum query depth is 1000.

Evan Goer
Yahoo! BOSS Team

--- In ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com, "iain" <iain@...> wrote:
>
> Actually, there are a number of things I want to do all of which require
> some kind of exhaustive search.
>
>
> And there are some 'divide and conquer' means I've thought of which will
> approach an exhaustive list. (for example you can do a search and retrieve
> 1000 hits and use the results to partition the search - for example if you
> searched for 'Bush' you might find cognates of 'tree' and 'president'
> allowing you to search for 'Bush AND tree' and 'Bush and President' and go
> further that way).
>
>
>
> In the particular case I have now I think there are some ways of
> partitioning the search so that the searches mostly return less than 1000
> hits. But the overlap is going to be fierce and the recall will not be
> perfect.
>
>
>
> Given that BOSS is charging (or will be charging) for the service, I can't
> see any reason for NOT allowing exhaustive search. There is no way you can
> build a general search index in this way, the sheer volume and latency of
> queries would prohibit it.
>
>
>
> In fact I suspect that the technologies used discard the bottom 99% of
> search results even before they are consolidated. In short not even Google
> or Yahoo can get to the tail of searches!
>
>
>
> (Please tell me I'm wrong BOSS blokes!)
>
>
>
> Iain
>
>
>
> From: ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com] On
> Behalf Of dinodorroco
> Sent: 06 September 2009 21:54
> To: ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [ysearchboss] Re: Exhaustive search
>
>
>
>
>
>
> i'm pretty sure all search engines do this. for example, you can't go past
> page 100 or 1000 with google. the rationale is that they don't want you to
> use their search engine to build your own index, but rather, to leverage
> their index to build new search experiences. why do you want to get all
> results? the reason i ask is because maybe there's a proxy for what you're
> trying to do that can be accomplished with BOSS.
>
> dino
>
> --- In ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com <mailto:ysearchboss%40yahoogroups.com> ,
> "iain" <iain@> wrote:
> >
> > Oh dear.
> >
> >
> >
> > It's MUCH worse than I thought.
> >
> >
> >
> > If I pick a start point any greater than 1000, then I get ignored and it
> > gives me only the last <N> (e.g. 10) up to 1000.
> >
> >
> >
> > Does this mean that I can NEVER retrieve more than 1000 results from any
> > search?
> >
> >
> >
> > (I'm surprised because AWS search had some features which let you process
> > ALL results. Sadly it is no longer with us...)
> >
> >
> >
> > Iain
> >
> >
> >
> > From: ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com <mailto:ysearchboss%40yahoogroups.com>
> [mailto:ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com <mailto:ysearchboss%40yahoogroups.com> ]
> On
> > Behalf Of iain
> > Sent: 06 September 2009 09:55
> > To: ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com <mailto:ysearchboss%40yahoogroups.com>
> > Subject: [ysearchboss] Exhaustive search
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi, Guys.
> >
> >
> >
> > I've an application in which I want to get ALL the search results for a
> > particular search. For example if the search for 'black widgets' has 10
> > million hits, then I want to get all URLs.
> >
> >
> >
> > From what I can see, I would need to do 200 thousand queries (with start
> set
> > to0, 50, 100, ..... 9,999,950).
> >
> >
> >
> > First question: is there any other way of getting this data back which is
> > more efficient?
> >
> >
> >
> > Second question: With the approach above, there seems to me some scope for
> > missing out results (or duplication). After all, the request series will
> > take some hours and there is the chance that the index / relevancy
> > calculations will be updated causing overlaps or gaps.
> >
> >
> >
> > In passing, when trying to review where BOSS is after a gap of several
> > months, I found myself confused between the BOSS api docs and the
> 'standard'
> > api stuff. A search from the boss home page on SDK returned the old api
> > stuff as a top hit, which was confusing!
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks for your help.
> >
> >
> >
> > Iain
> >
>


#2129 From: "hasti.shah" <hasti.shah@...>
Date: Wed Sep 9, 2009 5:42 pm
Subject: can i use sites: parameter for images search
hasti.shah
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Hello Eveyone

#2130 From: "hasti.shah" <hasti.shah@...>
Date: Wed Sep 9, 2009 5:44 pm
Subject: can i use sites: parameter for images search
hasti.shah
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Hello Everyone
         Can i use sites: parameter in image searh.
      or can i use site:.edu or domain:.edu like yahoo image search does
i want to images from .edu domain websites only.

       Is any solution for this

Regards
Hastimal Shah

#2131 From: "christian.kroll83" <christian.kroll83@...>
Date: Wed Sep 9, 2009 8:58 pm
Subject: Re: The Future of BOSS?
christian.kr...
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Hello? Anybody?

#2132 From: "iain" <iain@...>
Date: Wed Sep 9, 2009 9:50 pm
Subject: RE: Re: The Future of BOSS?
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If you search the recent archive, you will see much discussion on this.

 

The summary is that the BOSS team have no idea what will happen to them, they are fiercely fighting their ground and trying as hard as they can to clarify the intentions of the organisations going forward and will let this group know as soon as they have anything concrete.

 

Somewhat paraphrased, but that’s where we seem to be!

 

Iain

 

From: ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of christian.kroll83
Sent: 09 September 2009 21:59
To: ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [ysearchboss] Re: The Future of BOSS?

 

 

Hello? Anybody?


#2133 From: "yogishb" <baliga@...>
Date: Wed Sep 9, 2009 10:27 pm
Subject: Re: can i use sites: parameter for images search
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use url parameter. Add url=.edu to your query

-- baliga

--- In ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com, "hasti.shah" <hasti.shah@...> wrote:
>
> Hello Everyone
>         Can i use sites: parameter in image searh.
>      or can i use site:.edu or domain:.edu like yahoo image search does
> i want to images from .edu domain websites only.
>
>       Is any solution for this
>
> Regards
> Hastimal Shah
>

#2134 From: BOSS User Group Support Team <boss-usergroup-support-team@...>
Date: Wed Sep 9, 2009 10:26 pm
Subject: Re: can i use sites: parameter for images search
sboss64
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Hello Hastimal.


You can accomplish this by using the universal BOSS API argument of "sites", which is described here:

       http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/boss_guide/univer_api_args.html

....which says:

       "Example: (sites=abc.com,cnn.com). The Images service does not yet support multiple sites. Note: This argument can use a single site parameter."


More specifically, to see "food" images from only ".edu" sites:

       http://boss.yahooapis.com/ysearch/images/v1/food?appid=<INSERT YOUR APP ID HERE>&format=xml&lang=en&region=us&sites=.edu

---------------

Hope this helps,
Jay



hasti.shah wrote:
 

Hello Everyone
Can i use sites: parameter in image searh.
or can i use site:.edu or domain:.edu like yahoo image search does
i want to images from .edu domain websites only.

Is any solution for this

Regards
Hastimal Shah



#2135 From: "evangoer" <goer@...>
Date: Thu Sep 10, 2009 5:13 pm
Subject: Re: Exhaustive search
evangoer
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Hi Iain,

It's an interesting proposal :) -- but unfortunately this limit can't be lifted.

Evan Goer
Yahoo! BOSS Team


--- In ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com, "iain" <iain@...> wrote:
>
> HI, Evan.
>
>
>
> Could this limit be lifted?  There are all sorts of information gathering
> applications which would benefit from (much) more extended results sets.
>
>
>
> Is the limit a technological one (as I mused in an earlier email) or is it a
> commercial one?
>
>
>
> Would it be possible to get this limit lifted for special cases?  (me J )
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> Iain
>
>
>
> From: ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com] On
> Behalf Of evangoer
> Sent: 08 September 2009 16:00
> To: ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [ysearchboss] Re: Exhaustive search
>
>
>
>
>
> Hi Iain,
>
> The maximum query depth is 1000.
>
> Evan Goer
> Yahoo! BOSS Team
>

#2136 From: "iain" <iain@...>
Date: Thu Sep 10, 2009 9:53 pm
Subject: RE: Re: Exhaustive search
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Sorry to be picky, Evan, but is this is a technical limitation or a commercial one?  Or can you not say?

 

Iain

 

From: ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of evangoer
Sent: 10 September 2009 18:13
To: ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [ysearchboss] Re: Exhaustive search

 

 

Hi Iain,

It's an interesting proposal :) -- but unfortunately this limit can't be lifted.

Evan Goer
Yahoo! BOSS Team

--- In ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com, "iain" <iain@...> wrote:
>
> HI, Evan.
>
>
>
> Could this limit be lifted? There are all sorts of information gathering
> applications which would benefit from (much) more extended results sets.
>
>
>
> Is the limit a technological one (as I mused in an earlier email) or is it a
> commercial one?
>
>
>
> Would it be possible to get this limit lifted for special cases? (me J )
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> Iain
>
>
>
> From: ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com] On
> Behalf Of evangoer
> Sent: 08 September 2009 16:00
> To: ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [ysearchboss] Re: Exhaustive search
>
>
>
>
>
> Hi Iain,
>
> The maximum query depth is 1000.
>
> Evan Goer
> Yahoo! BOSS Team
>


#2137 From: "Ashim Chhabra" <achhabra@...>
Date: Thu Sep 10, 2009 10:01 pm
Subject: RE: Re: Exhaustive search
ashim
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Hi Iain,

 

This is in-line with what Yahoo! Search serves on Yahoo! owned and operated sites. There may be millions of results but flipping through the search pages you’ll hit the technical limit of 1000. It is a technical limit that BOSS adheres to as it stays with parity with Yahoo! properties.

 

I hope that answers your question.

 

Thanks,

Ashim

 

From: ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of iain
Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 2:53 PM
To: ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [ysearchboss] Re: Exhaustive search

 

 

Sorry to be picky, Evan, but is this is a technical limitation or a commercial one?  Or can you not say?

 

Iain

 

From: ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of evangoer
Sent: 10 September 2009 18:13
To: ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [ysearchboss] Re: Exhaustive search

 

 

Hi Iain,

It's an interesting proposal :) -- but unfortunately this limit can't be lifted.

Evan Goer
Yahoo! BOSS Team

--- In ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com, "iain" <iain@...> wrote:
>
> HI, Evan.
>
>
>
> Could this limit be lifted? There are all sorts of information gathering
> applications which would benefit from (much) more extended results sets.
>
>
>
> Is the limit a technological one (as I mused in an earlier email) or is it a
> commercial one?
>
>
>
> Would it be possible to get this limit lifted for special cases? (me J )
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> Iain
>
>
>
> From: ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com] On
> Behalf Of evangoer
> Sent: 08 September 2009 16:00
> To: ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [ysearchboss] Re: Exhaustive search
>
>
>
>
>
> Hi Iain,
>
> The maximum query depth is 1000.
>
> Evan Goer
> Yahoo! BOSS Team
>


#2138 From: "iain" <iain@...>
Date: Fri Sep 11, 2009 9:11 am
Subject: RE: Re: Exhaustive search
iaindowns
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Not the answer I wanted, but the answer I expected!

 

Thank you very much for clarifying that.

 

Iain

 

From: ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Ashim Chhabra
Sent: 10 September 2009 23:01
To: ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [ysearchboss] Re: Exhaustive search

 

 

Hi Iain,

 

This is in-line with what Yahoo! Search serves on Yahoo! owned and operated sites. There may be millions of results but flipping through the search pages you’ll hit the technical limit of 1000. It is a technical limit that BOSS adheres to as it stays with parity with Yahoo! properties.

 

I hope that answers your question.

 

Thanks,

Ashim

 

From: ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of iain
Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 2:53 PM
To: ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [ysearchboss] Re: Exhaustive search

 

 

Sorry to be picky, Evan, but is this is a technical limitation or a commercial one?  Or can you not say?

 

Iain

 

From: ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of evangoer
Sent: 10 September 2009 18:13
To: ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [ysearchboss] Re: Exhaustive search

 

 

Hi Iain,

It's an interesting proposal :) -- but unfortunately this limit can't be lifted.

Evan Goer
Yahoo! BOSS Team

--- In ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com, "iain" <iain@...> wrote:
>
> HI, Evan.
>
>
>
> Could this limit be lifted? There are all sorts of information gathering
> applications which would benefit from (much) more extended results sets.
>
>
>
> Is the limit a technological one (as I mused in an earlier email) or is it a
> commercial one?
>
>
>
> Would it be possible to get this limit lifted for special cases? (me J )
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> Iain
>
>
>
> From: ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com] On
> Behalf Of evangoer
> Sent: 08 September 2009 16:00
> To: ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [ysearchboss] Re: Exhaustive search
>
>
>
>
>
> Hi Iain,
>
> The maximum query depth is 1000.
>
> Evan Goer
> Yahoo! BOSS Team
>


#2139 From: "searchfindexplore" <reza_sardeha@...>
Date: Sun Sep 13, 2009 10:11 am
Subject: "No suitable nodes are available to serve your request"
searchfindex...
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I'm constantly getting this error back from Yahoo! BOSS.

What's going on?

Regards,
Reza

#2140 From: BOSS User Group Support Team <boss-usergroup-support-team@...>
Date: Mon Sep 14, 2009 6:32 pm
Subject: Re: "No suitable nodes are available to serve your request"
sboss64
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Hello Reza.

Could you please answer the following questions, to assist you on this issue?

[1]
Are you still experiencing this issue?

If "no", then what was the time period (including time zone) that you experienced this issue?  (start and stop times)

[2]
Please provide at least one actual BOSS query (ie: The entire HTTP request itself, and not just the actual query terms only) which was used when you encountered this issue.

As I would like to reproduce your exact BOSS API call, on my side, and see what happens.  Random BOSS queries which I send now work fine for me, so I need more details.

But take care to not expose your APP ID to this public BOSS user group, when sharing your BOSS API call example(s) with us.

[3]
Can you provide a screen shot of the entire error message, so that we can see exactly what you are seeing.

Or if screen shot is difficult to do, then copy+paste would be the next best  (including the surrounding XML, etc.)

-------------

This should be a very good start.   Thanks in advance, Reza.

And if any other BOSS users here also experienced the same situation, please also feel free to share.

Jay



searchfindexplore wrote:
 

I'm constantly getting this error back from Yahoo! BOSS.

What's going on?

Regards,
Reza



#2141 From: "searchfindexplore" <reza_sardeha@...>
Date: Wed Sep 16, 2009 2:29 pm
Subject: Re: "No suitable nodes are available to serve your request"
searchfindex...
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Hi Jay,

The problem is gone now but for about 6 hours my users received the same error
over and over again.

The first user email me about this problem: 13 September 2009 11:50 central
European time.

The problem wasn't keyword based but the error code showed up with every search
performed.

This is the website where the queries were made from: www.im*****.com
Replace the ***** with "halal".

The complete error code was: "No suitable nodes are available to serve your
request.  No suitable nodes are available to serve your request."

Ps: I would love to become a special Yahoo! partner and even make use of Yahoo!
ads on my search engine but my request via email still hasn't been answered.
Could you review my email Jay?

Thank you.

With kind regards,
Reza
--- In ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com, BOSS User Group Support Team
<boss-usergroup-support-team@...> wrote:
>
>
> Hello Reza.
>
> Could you please answer the following questions, to assist you on this
> issue?
>
> [1]
> Are you still experiencing this issue?
>
> If "no", then what was the time period (including time zone) that you
> experienced this issue?  (start and stop times)
>
> [2]
> Please provide at least one actual BOSS query (ie: The entire HTTP
> request itself, and not just the actual query terms only) which was used
> when you encountered this issue.
>
> As I would like to reproduce your exact BOSS API call, on my side, and
> see what happens.  Random BOSS queries which I send now work fine for
> me, so I need more details.
>
> But take care to not expose your APP ID to this public BOSS user group,
> when sharing your BOSS API call example(s) with us.
>
> [3]
> Can you provide a screen shot of the entire error message, so that we
> can see exactly what you are seeing.
>
> Or if screen shot is difficult to do, then copy+paste would be the next
> best  (including the surrounding XML, etc.)
>
> -------------
>
> This should be a very good start.   Thanks in advance, Reza.
>
> And if any other BOSS users here also experienced the same situation,
> please also feel free to share.
>
> Jay
>
>
>
> searchfindexplore wrote:
> >
> >
> > I'm constantly getting this error back from Yahoo! BOSS.
> >
> > What's going on?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Reza
> >
> >
>

#2142 From: BOSS User Group Support Team <boss-usergroup-support-team@...>
Date: Thu Sep 17, 2009 1:01 am
Subject: Re: Re: "No suitable nodes are available to serve your request"
sboss64
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Hi Reza,

I've already completed an initial investigation of the 6 hour time period which you mentioned.  And I do see data on our side which matches up exactly to just this specific 6 hour window, as far as a high error rate.

I'm going to continue my investigation, involving both BOSS dev and BOSS Ops teams, to try and understand it better.  I'll also see if this is a situation where we can put some new changes in place on our side, to try and avoid this type of scenario again, if possible.

Please let me know if you see this issue again, and thanks for reporting it to us.

----------------

Regarding your question about ads, I've forwarded your email to Ashim, and asked if he could get back to you on this.  As he would be the appropriate person for responding back on that topic.

Thank your Reza,
Jay



searchfindexplore wrote:
 

Hi Jay,

The problem is gone now but for about 6 hours my users received the same error over and over again.

The first user email me about this problem: 13 September 2009 11:50 central European time.

The problem wasn't keyword based but the error code showed up with every search performed.

This is the website where the queries were made from: www.im*****.com
Replace the ***** with "halal".

The complete error code was: "No suitable nodes are available to serve your request. No suitable nodes are available to serve your request."

Ps: I would love to become a special Yahoo! partner and even make use of Yahoo! ads on my search engine but my request via email still hasn't been answered. Could you review my email Jay?

Thank you.

With kind regards,
Reza
--- In ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com, BOSS User Group Support Team <boss-usergroup-support-team@...> wrote:
>
>
> Hello Reza.
>
> Could you please answer the following questions, to assist you on this
> issue?
>
> [1]
> Are you still experiencing this issue?
>
> If "no", then what was the time period (including time zone) that you
> experienced this issue? (start and stop times)
>
> [2]
> Please provide at least one actual BOSS query (ie: The entire HTTP
> request itself, and not just the actual query terms only) which was used
> when you encountered this issue.
>
> As I would like to reproduce your exact BOSS API call, on my side, and
> see what happens. Random BOSS queries which I send now work fine for
> me, so I need more details.
>
> But take care to not expose your APP ID to this public BOSS user group,
> when sharing your BOSS API call example(s) with us.
>
> [3]
> Can you provide a screen shot of the entire error message, so that we
> can see exactly what you are seeing.
>
> Or if screen shot is difficult to do, then copy+paste would be the next
> best (including the surrounding XML, etc.)
>
> -------------
>
> This should be a very good start. Thanks in advance, Reza.
>
> And if any other BOSS users here also experienced the same situation,
> please also feel free to share.
>
> Jay
>
>
>
> searchfindexplore wrote:
> >
> >
> > I'm constantly getting this error back from Yahoo! BOSS.
> >
> > What's going on?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Reza
> >
> >
>



#2143 From: "searchfindexplore" <reza_sardeha@...>
Date: Thu Sep 17, 2009 11:48 am
Subject: Re: "No suitable nodes are available to serve your request"
searchfindex...
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Dear Jay,

Thank you very much for your quick reply and please keep us updated about this
subject.

With kind regards,
Reza

--- In ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com, BOSS User Group Support Team
<boss-usergroup-support-team@...> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Reza,
>
> I've already completed an initial investigation of the 6 hour time
> period which you mentioned.  And I do see data on our side which matches
> up exactly to just this specific 6 hour window, as far as a high error rate.
>
> I'm going to continue my investigation, involving both BOSS dev and BOSS
> Ops teams, to try and understand it better.  I'll also see if this is a
> situation where we can put some new changes in place on our side, to try
> and avoid this type of scenario again, if possible.
>
> Please let me know if you see this issue again, and thanks for reporting
> it to us.
>
> ----------------
>
> Regarding your question about ads, I've forwarded your email to Ashim,
> and asked if he could get back to you on this.  As he would be the
> appropriate person for responding back on that topic.
>
> Thank your Reza,
> Jay
>
>
>
> searchfindexplore wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hi Jay,
> >
> > The problem is gone now but for about 6 hours my users received the
> > same error over and over again.
> >
> > The first user email me about this problem: 13 September 2009 11:50
> > central European time.
> >
> > The problem wasn't keyword based but the error code showed up with
> > every search performed.
> >
> > This is the website where the queries were made from: www.im*****.com
> > Replace the ***** with "halal".
> >
> > The complete error code was: "No suitable nodes are available to serve
> > your request. No suitable nodes are available to serve your request."
> >
> > Ps: I would love to become a special Yahoo! partner and even make use
> > of Yahoo! ads on my search engine but my request via email still
> > hasn't been answered. Could you review my email Jay?
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > With kind regards,
> > Reza
> > --- In ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com
> > <mailto:ysearchboss%40yahoogroups.com>, BOSS User Group Support Team
> > <boss-usergroup-support-team@> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > Hello Reza.
> > >
> > > Could you please answer the following questions, to assist you on this
> > > issue?
> > >
> > > [1]
> > > Are you still experiencing this issue?
> > >
> > > If "no", then what was the time period (including time zone) that you
> > > experienced this issue? (start and stop times)
> > >
> > > [2]
> > > Please provide at least one actual BOSS query (ie: The entire HTTP
> > > request itself, and not just the actual query terms only) which was
> > used
> > > when you encountered this issue.
> > >
> > > As I would like to reproduce your exact BOSS API call, on my side, and
> > > see what happens. Random BOSS queries which I send now work fine for
> > > me, so I need more details.
> > >
> > > But take care to not expose your APP ID to this public BOSS user group,
> > > when sharing your BOSS API call example(s) with us.
> > >
> > > [3]
> > > Can you provide a screen shot of the entire error message, so that we
> > > can see exactly what you are seeing.
> > >
> > > Or if screen shot is difficult to do, then copy+paste would be the next
> > > best (including the surrounding XML, etc.)
> > >
> > > -------------
> > >
> > > This should be a very good start. Thanks in advance, Reza.
> > >
> > > And if any other BOSS users here also experienced the same situation,
> > > please also feel free to share.
> > >
> > > Jay
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > searchfindexplore wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I'm constantly getting this error back from Yahoo! BOSS.
> > > >
> > > > What's going on?
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Reza
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >
>

#2144 From: "searchfindexplore" <reza_sardeha@...>
Date: Mon Sep 21, 2009 5:06 pm
Subject: Re: "No suitable nodes are available to serve your request" - Error is back agai
searchfindex...
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Dear Jay,

Just a minute ago the "No suitable nodes are available to serve your request."
error is being reported by my users again.

I hope this error can be fixed any time soon since the reliability of my service
isn't "optimal" this way.

With kind regards,
Reza
--- In ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com, BOSS User Group Support Team
<boss-usergroup-support-team@...> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Reza,
>
> I've already completed an initial investigation of the 6 hour time
> period which you mentioned.  And I do see data on our side which matches
> up exactly to just this specific 6 hour window, as far as a high error rate.
>
> I'm going to continue my investigation, involving both BOSS dev and BOSS
> Ops teams, to try and understand it better.  I'll also see if this is a
> situation where we can put some new changes in place on our side, to try
> and avoid this type of scenario again, if possible.
>
> Please let me know if you see this issue again, and thanks for reporting
> it to us.
>
> ----------------
>
> Regarding your question about ads, I've forwarded your email to Ashim,
> and asked if he could get back to you on this.  As he would be the
> appropriate person for responding back on that topic.
>
> Thank your Reza,
> Jay
>
>
>
> searchfindexplore wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hi Jay,
> >
> > The problem is gone now but for about 6 hours my users received the
> > same error over and over again.
> >
> > The first user email me about this problem: 13 September 2009 11:50
> > central European time.
> >
> > The problem wasn't keyword based but the error code showed up with
> > every search performed.
> >
> > This is the website where the queries were made from: www.im*****.com
> > Replace the ***** with "halal".
> >
> > The complete error code was: "No suitable nodes are available to serve
> > your request. No suitable nodes are available to serve your request."
> >
> > Ps: I would love to become a special Yahoo! partner and even make use
> > of Yahoo! ads on my search engine but my request via email still
> > hasn't been answered. Could you review my email Jay?
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > With kind regards,
> > Reza
> > --- In ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com
> > <mailto:ysearchboss%40yahoogroups.com>, BOSS User Group Support Team
> > <boss-usergroup-support-team@> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > Hello Reza.
> > >
> > > Could you please answer the following questions, to assist you on this
> > > issue?
> > >
> > > [1]
> > > Are you still experiencing this issue?
> > >
> > > If "no", then what was the time period (including time zone) that you
> > > experienced this issue? (start and stop times)
> > >
> > > [2]
> > > Please provide at least one actual BOSS query (ie: The entire HTTP
> > > request itself, and not just the actual query terms only) which was
> > used
> > > when you encountered this issue.
> > >
> > > As I would like to reproduce your exact BOSS API call, on my side, and
> > > see what happens. Random BOSS queries which I send now work fine for
> > > me, so I need more details.
> > >
> > > But take care to not expose your APP ID to this public BOSS user group,
> > > when sharing your BOSS API call example(s) with us.
> > >
> > > [3]
> > > Can you provide a screen shot of the entire error message, so that we
> > > can see exactly what you are seeing.
> > >
> > > Or if screen shot is difficult to do, then copy+paste would be the next
> > > best (including the surrounding XML, etc.)
> > >
> > > -------------
> > >
> > > This should be a very good start. Thanks in advance, Reza.
> > >
> > > And if any other BOSS users here also experienced the same situation,
> > > please also feel free to share.
> > >
> > > Jay
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > searchfindexplore wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I'm constantly getting this error back from Yahoo! BOSS.
> > > >
> > > > What's going on?
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Reza
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >
>

#2145 From: BOSS User Group Support Team <boss-usergroup-support-team@...>
Date: Mon Sep 21, 2009 7:05 pm
Subject: Re: Re: "No suitable nodes are available to serve your request" - Error is back agai
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Reza,

I've performed a great deal of investigation last week on this, but will still need more information from you, to be able to understand this better.

Especially since I do -not- show this exact error string as being present on the Yahoo! side, going through all of the different hardware + software technologies used by BOSS here, FYI.

And if you perform a general internet search for this exact error string across the web, you will find this exact error string has happened to end users from many different non-Yahoo! web sites, in general.  So this error string appears to be inside of some general + common piece of technology, it seems, which many people use outside of Yahoo! services.

But unfortunately, I was not able to find a web page that describes exactly what piece of common technology uses this error string.

----------------------

For example, info which I would still need from you, Reza:

[1]
Can you perform a "wget" command for one of the BOSS API requests which is returning this error string back?

Then, perform a full copy + paste of this command from your terminal window, as well as the output file contents, one of which should also include this exact error string of "No suitable nodes...".

To get "debug" level output for wget:     wget --debug  "{insert the working BOSS API call here}"

When you perform this above step, if you do not get the error message back, then please set up a simple script which issues this above command once every minute or so, in order to try and capture diagnostic info for one of your BOSS API calls that does eventually return this exact error string.   Make sure the script captures all the same info as if you were manually issuing this on the command line.

As we need this diagnostic info, in addition to the other items below, to make progress on understanding this better.

Take care not to expose your APP ID, to the BOSS user community, in this process.

[2]
For the time period of  "13 September 2009,  11:50 CET - 5:50 CET", can you tell me both the total number of BOSS requests which resulted in successful XML response, and then also the total number of BOSS requests which resulted in this "No suitable nodes..." error?

Getting these 2 exact numbers back to me is very important.  And if you are not able to get the total number of error messages metric, then please at least provide the total number of successful BOSS API requests  (with successful XML responses returned back to you), at a minimum, for this exact time frame.

[3]
You mentioned in this most recent email (as well as previous one) that your actual end users are the ones seeing this "No suitable nodes..." error message.

This actually makes things more interesting.   :)

Questions about this:

*** Is the entire browser window for the end-users showing this "No suitable nodes..." error, with nothing else on the browser page...?   Can you get us a screen shot, as well as also get us a copy+paste of the actual HTML / XML  source code, from any browser page with the error?

*** How is it possible that your web site code would even display this error message, for the end user?   As your web site code currently expects to always receive XML back from the BOSS API, then parse the XML, to show the results to the end user based on that.    So I would assume your XML parser would have issues with the abnormal "No suitable nodes..." error message, and not  actually display it for people to read(?).  So this makes me highly suspicious that this error string is coming from the ISP being used by the end user, and not from your web site code (or from our code).

[4]
But can you also checked any shared code that you use for your web site code (PHP libraries, security libraries, etc.), which might contain this error string, on your web site boxes?   This would be code that you didn't actually write yourself, but that are including in your overall web site code, on the same machines.

As it is technically possible that some code on your actual web site machine(s) is returning this error message to your end users, but you wouldn't necessarily know about it because it is inside of code that you are automatically including into your "main, top-level code" which you wrote.

[5]
I'm also suspicious that nobody else in this BOSS user group has complained of the same error string / outage (?), so that also makes me lean further toward this being something that is either in your web site code itself, or something to do with an ISP in the area of your end users, etc.

If any other BOSS developers are also seeing this mysterious error string, please kindly speak up, and let us know....!!!

-------------------

The above should be a very good start, Reza, to much better understand this.   Thanks in advance.
Jay




searchfindexplore wrote:
 

Dear Jay,

Just a minute ago the "No suitable nodes are available to serve your request." error is being reported by my users again.

I hope this error can be fixed any time soon since the reliability of my service isn't "optimal" this way.

With kind regards,
Reza
--- In ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com, BOSS User Group Support Team <boss-usergroup-support-team@...> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Reza,
>
> I've already completed an initial investigation of the 6 hour time
> period which you mentioned. And I do see data on our side which matches
> up exactly to just this specific 6 hour window, as far as a high error rate.
>
> I'm going to continue my investigation, involving both BOSS dev and BOSS
> Ops teams, to try and understand it better. I'll also see if this is a
> situation where we can put some new changes in place on our side, to try
> and avoid this type of scenario again, if possible.
>
> Please let me know if you see this issue again, and thanks for reporting
> it to us.
>
> ----------------
>
> Regarding your question about ads, I've forwarded your email to Ashim,
> and asked if he could get back to you on this. As he would be the
> appropriate person for responding back on that topic.
>
> Thank your Reza,
> Jay
>
>
>
> searchfindexplore wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hi Jay,
> >
> > The problem is gone now but for about 6 hours my users received the
> > same error over and over again.
> >
> > The first user email me about this problem: 13 September 2009 11:50
> > central European time.
> >
> > The problem wasn't keyword based but the error code showed up with
> > every search performed.
> >
> > This is the website where the queries were made from: www.im*****.com
> > Replace the ***** with "halal".
> >
> > The complete error code was: "No suitable nodes are available to serve
> > your request. No suitable nodes are available to serve your request."
> >
> > Ps: I would love to become a special Yahoo! partner and even make use
> > of Yahoo! ads on my search engine but my request via email still
> > hasn't been answered. Could you review my email Jay?
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > With kind regards,
> > Reza
> > --- In ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com
> > <mailto:ysearchboss%40yahoogroups.com>, BOSS User Group Support Team
> > <boss-usergroup-support-team@> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > Hello Reza.
> > >
> > > Could you please answer the following questions, to assist you on this
> > > issue?
> > >
> > > [1]
> > > Are you still experiencing this issue?
> > >
> > > If "no", then what was the time period (including time zone) that you
> > > experienced this issue? (start and stop times)
> > >
> > > [2]
> > > Please provide at least one actual BOSS query (ie: The entire HTTP
> > > request itself, and not just the actual query terms only) which was
> > used
> > > when you encountered this issue.
> > >
> > > As I would like to reproduce your exact BOSS API call, on my side, and
> > > see what happens. Random BOSS queries which I send now work fine for
> > > me, so I need more details.
> > >
> > > But take care to not expose your APP ID to this public BOSS user group,
> > > when sharing your BOSS API call example(s) with us.
> > >
> > > [3]
> > > Can you provide a screen shot of the entire error message, so that we
> > > can see exactly what you are seeing.
> > >
> > > Or if screen shot is difficult to do, then copy+paste would be the next
> > > best (including the surrounding XML, etc.)
> > >
> > > -------------
> > >
> > > This should be a very good start. Thanks in advance, Reza.
> > >
> > > And if any other BOSS users here also experienced the same situation,
> > > please also feel free to share.
> > >
> > > Jay
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > searchfindexplore wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I'm constantly getting this error back from Yahoo! BOSS.
> > > >
> > > > What's going on?
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Reza
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >
>



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