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Hi! As I'm working on the Java library that wraps the BOSS API I need some clarifications on certain aspects: a) Please provide a detailed specification of the...
3 Aug 8, 2008
6:19 pm

Ashim Chhabra
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I am curious what is happening with 4hoursearch: http://www.4hoursearch.com/search?q=boss Results: Traceback (most recent call last): File ...
3 Aug 8, 2008
5:44 pm

Ashim Chhabra
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Im getting a 403 - invalid AppID error. Is the service down or am I ousted ? What seems to be the problem here ?...
3 Aug 8, 2008
5:56 am

itsmeritesh
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Hey all, Adding yet another hack on top of BOSS. Check out More Y!, a search experience for widescreen displays. To get over the problem of seeing only ten...
2 Aug 7, 2008
10:36 am

Vik Singh
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Everyone - We're investigating this (resultset_images was renamed to resultset_img). Know that we will not change formats for an API in a way that would break...
2 Aug 6, 2008
7:18 pm

Ashim Chhabra
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I really would like to know more about "callbacks&quot;. Unfortunately I could not find more information about it. Could someone please advice me. Thank you....
1 Aug 6, 2008
1:14 pm

dermatzeimnetz
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BuildaSearch.com now allows anyone to add "paste" a custom search engine or site search to external sites which support PHP. There is no need to code, the PHP...
1 Aug 6, 2008
10:05 am

dmontal2
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Hi, The XML response from BOSS API is malformed, IMHO. For example, the <abstract> node is returned as follows: <abstract> An <b>apple pie</b> is a fruit pie...
3 Aug 6, 2008
5:17 am

ragjunk
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Hey all, I built a site search utility using BOSS. Took me less than 2 hours to do it (mainly due to my PHP skills ) and its less than 70 lines of code. Read...
5 Aug 6, 2008
1:22 am

wotuthink
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Hi, I am hoping I can get an official reply about this usage question. I would really love to use BOSS for my application, but I want to ensure I am operating...
4 Aug 5, 2008
10:10 pm

matt_fine_rocks
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sadly .net explodes when getting a 403 back from BOSS - trapping looks like it's in place but obvioulsy not. Since of course this only happens on production...
3 Aug 5, 2008
9:57 pm

mr_b4nks
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1.Take wordpress as platform, Wordpress support theme.So you can play in many ways. 2.Come to Yahoo BOSS, get id, then replace search form with Yahoo Boss,...
2 Aug 5, 2008
5:06 am

Hong Xiaowan
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... From: Vik Singh To: 'tupeed600@...' <tupeed600@...>; 'ysearchboss-owner@yahoogroups.com' <ysearchboss-owner@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Mon Aug 04...
2 Aug 4, 2008
6:58 pm

mark_puckett
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Hello, everyone. I struggle to use BOSS api using python. The problem is the following error from api's response. HTTP/1.1 406 not acceptable Cache-Control:...
5 Aug 4, 2008
6:28 pm

mark_puckett
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The day BOSS was released was a great day for all Yahoo! Developers! We have been working with the Yahoo! Search API since the inception of the Developer API....
10 Aug 4, 2008
4:36 pm

anshu bansal
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I've upgraded the Boss Mashup Framework and ported it to the Google App Engine platform. Learn about it here: http://zooie.wordpress.com/ I also developed a...
1 Aug 4, 2008
7:20 am

Vik Singh
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I know the Yahoo Boss XML is utf8 encoded, normally it is no problem i can decode special german chars. But now it is not able to decode the dash to its value....
2 Aug 3, 2008
9:04 pm

tobias_petry
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The BOSS release was a great day for all search developers out there. It is a true strategic answer to the poor state of things in the search market. ONE SIZE...
1 Aug 3, 2008
8:41 am

yoramk2
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Why are thumbnails now removed as a response field with boss? For example http://developer.yahoo.com/search/news/V1/newsSearch.html you return a thumbnail URL....
5 Aug 1, 2008
6:49 pm

Ryan Romanchuk
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hi I would like to know if there is going to be a begginer guide. i know a bit of php but i have no experiences with framework or mashups......
1 Aug 1, 2008
2:19 pm

boobanagawe
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hi it would be nice to have exmples of how to write in php 1-display search results 2-next and previous pages 3-Suggest terms 4-Site (domain)search 5-top...
1 Aug 1, 2008
1:53 pm

boobanagawe
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Some folks here have already asked about obtaining the cached result URL so I'll not talk about that. Just mentioning it here so that 'demand&#39; for this is felt...
4 Aug 1, 2008
5:29 am

Suraj Kumar
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specifically speaking, when I do a search on YAhoo.com, it only gives me the first 1,000 results. If I use the old Yahoo API, I can actually get to 10,000. ...
2 Aug 1, 2008
2:55 am

Vik Singh
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I created an Application ID but cannot figure out how to get started with BOSS. Is there a get-started guide for people, such as myself, who have limited, or...
2 Jul 31, 2008
9:09 pm

Bill_Michels
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Dear Boss Team: Please see this image http://zuosa.com/photo/mms/00/00/4E/12220141.jpg Domain Confirmation Confirmation Code Please create a file called...
5 Jul 31, 2008
5:10 pm

Hong Xiaowan
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... This is good, but unfortunately Yahoo publisher network is opened only to US publishers. What about Boss revenue sharing, will it also be US only? I don't...
4 Jul 31, 2008
4:59 pm

Dash Gopinath
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Can i use adsense while launch his ads program ?...
1 Jul 31, 2008
2:55 pm

cetegu
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If we use Yahoo Boss to create our own search engine are we permitted to put that search engine into customers' websites without any additional Yahoo!...
2 Jul 31, 2008
2:09 pm

Vik Singh
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Thanks to the Yahoo BOSS team for the great service. Currently, the API does not support Chinese (traditional and simplified chinese) language, and no region...
4 Jul 31, 2008
7:29 am

lulu_tom65
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... NO ATTRIBUTION (a) You shall not refer to the Services, or use or display any Yahoo! trademarks, service marks, logos or other Yahoo!-related branding in ...
3 Jul 31, 2008
12:16 am

Bill Michels
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