How do I begin implementing the Yahoo BOSS technology into my site....
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Yogish Baliga
yogishb
Feb 11, 2010 5:07 pm
Do you mean to say that you want to include the search results from BOSS into your site?...
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haqker
Feb 11, 2010 5:14 pm
I would like to include search results from BOSS into my site, yes correct. I currently have a search box and am using Google's custom search engine. I want to...
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Yogish Baliga
yogishb
Feb 11, 2010 5:23 pm
Currently Yahoo! BOSS don¹t have the HTML results to be embedded into the result page. If your website runs on PHP, this is a trivial task to do so. If you...
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Ted Drake
t_drake_net
Feb 11, 2010 5:25 pm
I haven't used the google custom search engine, but from what I understand, it is a one-size fits all approach. You make a few adjustments on their admin...
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BOSS User Group Suppo...
sboss64
Feb 11, 2010 6:04 pm
Hello ChrischiK, BOSS currently has support for spelling suggestions with these 8 languages: German UK English US English Spanish French Italian Japanese ...
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derekthejew@...
derekthejew...
Feb 11, 2010 6:45 pm
So I just want it to pull stuff from www.examplesite.com/categoryA and www.examplesite.com/categoryB but not from www.examplesite.com/categoryC and...
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sboss64
Feb 11, 2010 6:53 pm
Hello Jonathan, I personally would not be able to give you working example code for using BOSS, but regardless I can get you very close to being able to do it...
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Ted Drake
t_drake_net
Feb 11, 2010 6:57 pm
The sites attribute lets you define domains to search. So this "sites=www.examplesite.com/categoryA,www.examplesite.com/categoryB" is the same as...
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derekthejew@...
derekthejew...
Feb 11, 2010 7:26 pm
i can't your inurl solution to work, it does an AND instead of an OR so I only end up getting stuff back that has both "category A AND category B" in the url...
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derekthejew@...
derekthejew...
Feb 11, 2010 8:47 pm
so this is what my search looks like ...
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derekthejew@...
derekthejew...
Feb 11, 2010 9:07 pm
Ok so from what I can tell using +site:trendhunter.com/trends will only give me results i want but I can't seem to get it to work in conjunction with...
The inurl filter is common to all search engines. It's telling the search engine to show results that have a string in the url. It makes sense that it would...
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thinkloop
Feb 12, 2010 2:29 am
Hello, The site I am working on uses the count of search results (i.e. 1.6 million hits for the term "hello") but not the results themselves. If I display 10...
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christian.kroll83
christian.kr...
Feb 12, 2010 1:38 pm
Thanks Jay :o)...
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BOSS User Group Suppo...
sboss64
Feb 12, 2010 7:04 pm
Hello hanjialong1, The below query works fine for me, if I only modify it to include my own APP ID. Are you still having this issue? If you are: * What is the...
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BOSS User Group Suppo...
sboss64
Feb 12, 2010 7:32 pm
Hello Baz, Please see comments below... ... So luckily this is as simple as just specifying "count=0" within your BOSS /web/ query, such as: ...
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Baz
thinkloop
Feb 12, 2010 8:10 pm
Thanks for the count=0 suggestion Jay, I have a feeling batch requests aren't possible either. Baz...
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Ted Drake
t_drake_net
Feb 12, 2010 11:20 pm
You can do batch processing in YQL. http://developer.yahoo.com/yql. I don't have the example in front of me, but I saw a demo where several requests were made...
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Baz
thinkloop
Feb 12, 2010 11:33 pm
Woah! How cool is that! The console is fantastic too, I don't know how all of this slipped under my radar, thanks! If I get what I need done, I'll post my...
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Ted Drake
t_drake_net
Feb 12, 2010 11:48 pm
YQL uses boss, so you can do much of what you'd do with plain boss. However, some of the parameters are slightly different. From: ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com...
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Baz
thinkloop
Feb 13, 2010 12:29 am
Hmm, when I use boss directly part of the packet I get back has totalhots: <resultset_web count="0" start="0" totalhits="4803" deephits="4810"> However using...
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drawdegnaw
Feb 13, 2010 6:17 am
This is awesome, I'm 20 minutes into Yahoo API and I've learned alot. A quick question though, searching for ...
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jason_brook@...
jason_brook...
Feb 13, 2010 7:06 pm
I want to be able to echo the number of results found for image and web search how can i go about doing this. I'm using PHP i have the whole thing working...
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lironeizenman
Feb 14, 2010 8:25 am
Hi, I'm using the news api to retrieve news from specific sources and I found (what I believe is) a bug. I'm looking for news on topic 'CNN' from the...
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Jacob B
jacobbbc
Feb 15, 2010 10:13 am
Hello, Thank you for your interest. I am a yahoo boss developer and I can help you to integrate BOSS services to your website. Please let me know the features...
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balancedsearch
Feb 15, 2010 7:36 pm
If you are getting your results in json format, just look for the right variable in the array after your json_decode. Here is a snippet from my PHP site for...
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balancedsearch
Feb 15, 2010 7:47 pm
I prefer to get results in json format, just because of the ease you ask about. Note the "format" variable in the BOSS request URL for "test": ...
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Rabia
rnuray
Feb 15, 2010 10:42 pm
Hi, Currently, that is not supported with BOSS. http://developer.yahoo.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=826&hl=count However, one can collect that information...
