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 need (near) real
time results as data changes often in my application.

Thanks.

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
Product Management
Yahoo! Search BOSS

 

Congrats yourself! Great job! There’s a _ton_ of great press/blogs out there already. Nice!
 
Tobias
 
me.dium.com/search
 
 
 

From: ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Ashim Chhabra
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 11:19 PM
To: ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [ysearchboss] BOSS is live!


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
Product Management
Yahoo! Search BOSS

 
 
    

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 200 domains and search against them to get a
dataset?

Thanks

Will

What other verticals is Y considering?  Twitter?  :)

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 if I choose
Browser Based Authentication

But in order to do so, I have to give a
BBAuth Success URL

Then, at the site suggested by the BBAuth Success URL, I have to put
the little piece of code that will allow Yahoo to make sure that I
have control of that site.

Here is the problem:
I do not really have a public site. I have a private site (password
protected) and at this point I want to experiment with the APIs.

Any suggestions on what I need to do?

Thank you

I feel you. Lots of reasons why we chose BBAuth but we're going to do our best to make it easier to sign up.

I would recommend using a free host (weebly, googlepages, etc.). It doesn't matter if you run the api from that provided endpoint - just do it to get that appid ;)

Hope this helps.

-- Vik

----- Original Message -----
From: ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com <ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com>
To: ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com <ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thu Jul 10 07:13:13 2008
Subject: [ysearchboss] Getting an ID

I am a bit confused with how to get a BOSS ID.

It seems that in the registration page
http://developer.yahoo.com/wsregapp/ <http://developer.yahoo.com/wsregapp/>
the BOSS ID option is only available if I choose
Browser Based Authentication

But in order to do so, I have to give a
BBAuth Success URL

Then, at the site suggested by the BBAuth Success URL, I have to put
the little piece of code that will allow Yahoo to make sure that I
have control of that site.

Here is the problem:
I do not really have a public site. I have a private site (password
protected) and at this point I want to experiment with the APIs.

Any suggestions on what I need to do?

Thank you

Hello,

I get the following message during site registration process:

Result: Pass (checked http://www.xxxxxxxxx.xxx/ydn5jL63Q.html ). You
can remove this file now.

Than I click at "Continue" and the result is the following:

Result: unchecked


This happens again and again... what should I do?

I'm using FF 3.0


Regards,
Stefan

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 of news results from the news search query.

Is that legal under the Terms of Service?

"BOSS gives you access to Yahoo!'s investments in crawling and
indexing, ranking and relevancy algorithms, and powerful infrastructure"

Documentation only mentions how to get results from Yahoo (similar to
the API) but does not talk about crawling, indexing, ranking.

I would like to use BOSS to power search on my website. However, Y!
Search is not that good with indexing and ranking pages from my site.
It also has problem with indexing images off my site.

Is there a way to use BOSS to crawl and build an index of my site and
  then use it with custom ranking to power search results on my site?

Thx.
g

Hi all, thanks for BOSS. :)

I have a question.  I'm looking to develop a web app that incorporates
LOCAL search results of businesses, like http://ca.local.yahoo.com/
example: search for "tires" with postal code "b4a 1e6".

I am experimenting with vineet_boss.py on my system and of course
getting regular web search results.

Would this need a newly implemented search_type (local?) or is there
some way of getting local search results with the existing API?

Thanks a lot,
-Rob

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 aggregator (like Bloglines or Newsgator
Online) but just for searches, so that people can figure out when
people talk about them or their brand online.

My concern is that since we would be polling hourly for this data,
that we'd be lumped in with malicious bots or spiders, etc.

Thanks,

Mike Buckbee

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 other Yahoo!-related branding in
connection with any Links or Web Search Results or in any other
manner, except where expressly and specifically authorized by Yahoo!
in writing.

Depending on the interpretation, it sure sounds like I'd be in
violation of the TOS if I wrote a blog post stating that my service
was now incorporating Yahoo BOSS search results. Is that the case?

Thanks,

Mike

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 renumeration expected.

@AB

According to Y! "BOSS gives you access to Yahoo!'s investments in
crawling and indexing, ranking and relevancy algorithms, and powerful
infrastructure".

I agree that this can be interpreted in two different ways. It'd be
great if Y! team member can clarify if they will let developers (even
if it is in future) use slurp or create custom indexes on Y!'s
infrastructure.

--- In ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com, anshu bansal <anshubansal2000@...>
wrote:
>
> I think yahoo is only providing API for accessing its search results
with UN Limited queries. The crawling, Indexing is not being exposed
by them. We all know yahoo is not very good in crawling/indexing/ranking.
> So the only thing they are trying to do is to provide developers an
opportunity to improve presentation layer and grab the developer's
local market. Thus they can earn more revenues.
>
> Thx
> AB
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: gsh4rm4 <gsharma@...>
> To: ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 11:09:20 AM
> Subject: [ysearchboss] Indexing, does Boss have it?
>
>
> "BOSS gives you access to Yahoo!'s investments in crawling and
> indexing, ranking and relevancy algorithms, and powerful infrastructure"
>
> Documentation only mentions how to get results from Yahoo (similar to
> the API) but does not talk about crawling, indexing, ranking.
>
> I would like to use BOSS to power search on my website. However, Y!
> Search is not that good with indexing and ranking pages from my site.
> It also has problem with indexing images off my site.
>
> Is there a way to use BOSS to crawl and build an index of my site and
> then use it with custom ranking to power search results on my site?
>
> Thx.
> g
>

 

@AB

According to Y! "BOSS gives you access to Yahoo!'s investments in
crawling and indexing, ranking and relevancy algorithms, and powerful
infrastructure".

I agree that this can be interpreted in two different ways. It'd be
great if Y! team member can clarify if they will let developers (even
if it is in future) use slurp or create custom indexes on Y!'s
infrastructure.

--- In ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com <mailto:ysearchboss%40yahoogroups.com> , anshu bansal <anshubansal2000@...>
wrote:
>
> I think yahoo is only providing API for accessing its search results
with UN Limited queries. The crawling, Indexing is not being exposed
by them. We all know yahoo is not very good in crawling/indexing/ranking.
> So the only thing they are trying to do is to provide developers an
opportunity to improve presentation layer and grab the developer's
local market. Thus they can earn more revenues.
>
> Thx
> AB
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: gsh4rm4 <gsharma@...>
> To: ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com <mailto:ysearchboss%40yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 11:09:20 AM
> Subject: [ysearchboss] Indexing, does Boss have it?
>
>
> "BOSS gives you access to Yahoo!'s investments in crawling and
> indexing, ranking and relevancy algorithms, and powerful infrastructure"
>
> Documentation only mentions how to get results from Yahoo (similar to
> the API) but does not talk about crawling, indexing, ranking.
>
> I would like to use BOSS to power search on my website. However, Y!
> Search is not that good with indexing and ranking pages from my site.
> It also has problem with indexing images off my site.
>
> Is there a way to use BOSS to crawl and build an index of my site and
> then use it with custom ranking to power search results on my site?
>
> Thx.
> g
>

 
    

 

@Vik,

So this means yahoo is looking to refine for Presentation layer NOT the actual core. Correct me if I am wrong but the same functionality can be achieved via GOOGLE's API with better results.??

--AB

----- Original Message ----
From: Vik Singh <viksi@...>
To: ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 12:22:54 PM
Subject: Re: [ysearchboss] Re: Indexing, does Boss have it?

 
 

Not in this version. Stay tuned on that.
Also, check out Boss custom and email us there. We’re working with select partners on exactly those type of technology solutions.

-- Vik


On 7/10/08 12:19 PM, "gsh4rm4" <gsharma@gmail. com> wrote:

 

@AB

According to Y! "BOSS gives you access to Yahoo!'s investments in
crawling and indexing, ranking and relevancy algorithms, and powerful
infrastructure".

I agree that this can be interpreted in two different ways. It'd be
great if Y! team member can clarify if they will let developers (even
if it is in future) use slurp or create custom indexes on Y!'s
infrastructure.

--- In ysearchboss@ yahoogroups. com <mailto:ysearchboss% 40yahoogroups. com> <mailto:ysearchboss%40yahoogroups.com>  , anshu bansal <anshubansal2000@ ...>
wrote:
>
> I think yahoo is only providing API for accessing its search results
with UN Limited queries. The crawling, Indexing is not being exposed
by them. We all know yahoo is not very good in crawling/indexing/ ranking.
> So the only thing they are trying to do is to provide developers an
opportunity to improve presentation layer and grab the developer's
local market. Thus they can earn more revenues.
>
> Thx
> AB
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: gsh4rm4 <gsharma@...>
> To: ysearchboss@ yahoogroups. com <mailto:ysearchboss% 40yahoogroups. com> <mailto:ysearchboss%40yahoogroups.com>  
> Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 11:09:20 AM
> Subject: [ysearchboss] Indexing, does Boss have it?
>
>
> "BOSS gives you access to Yahoo!'s investments in crawling and
> indexing, ranking and relevancy algorithms, and powerful infrastructure"
>
> Documentation only mentions how to get results from Yahoo (similar to
> the API) but does not talk about crawling, indexing, ranking.
>
> I would like to use BOSS to power search on my website. However, Y!
> Search is not that good with indexing and ranking pages from my site.
> It also has problem with indexing images off my site.
>
> Is there a way to use BOSS to crawl and build an index of my site and
> then use it with custom ranking to power search results on my site?
>
> Thx.
> g
>

 
    

 
  

 
 
    

Hello, everyone.

I received a appid that ends with a "-".
If i call a news-search (i use "abcde-" as appid), like
http://boss.yahooapis.com/ysearch/news/v1/Sport?format=xml®ion=at&lang=de&app\
id=abcde-&start=10,
i get the links to prev/next like:
/ysearch/news/v1/Sport?format=xml®ion=at&lang=de&appid=abcde&start=0
/ysearch/news/v1/Sport?format=xml®ion=at&lang=de&appid=abcde&start=20

The "-" is missing. If i open these link (on
http://boss.yahooapis.com/), i get a "Access is forbidden to the
requested page". Adding the "-" makes everything work again.

Is this a known bug so far?

Regards, Rainer

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 a while back
needed the
ability to weight keywords differently in order to return fine-tuned results. 
something like

spears 100
-britney
-asparagus
arrows 30
weapons 60

In order to find material about 'spears' while excluding irrelevant results and
including results
that probably mentioned 'weapons' and may have mentioned 'arrows'.

Possible?

Eric

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 proper escaping). I get the same error regardless...

400 Error with the message:

The requested URL "/ysearch/web/v1/flowers?appid=my.appid--
&format=xml&start=0&count=10", is invalid.

According to the docs a 400 error is returned if there are unescaped
reserved characters in the URL. However there are clearly none of these
in the URL above.

Is anyone else having this problem?

Thanks!

 

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 proper escaping). I get the same error regardless...

400 Error with the message:

The requested URL "/ysearch/web/v1/flowers?appid=my.appid--
&format=xml&start=0&count=10", is invalid.

According to the docs a 400 error is returned if there are unescaped
reserved characters in the URL. However there are clearly none of these
in the URL above.

Is anyone else having this problem?

Thanks!

 
    

Let me clarify... obviously the app ID in my sample is not my actual
app ID.

If you use an incorrect app ID you get an error about the app ID, not
about the format of the URL.

Also two dashes (which by the way are part of my real app ID) will
not cause an invalid URL error.

--- In ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com, Vik Singh <viksi@...> wrote:
>
> It works for me. The only difference between your URL and mine is
my appid
> value.
>
> http://boss.yahooapis.com/ysearch/web/v1/flowers?
appid=WzAiMejIkY1NaRgU_UvMh
> d&format=xml&start=0&count=10
>
> * I removed some characters from the appid so this URL wonąt work
but just
> wanted to show the format of the url
>
>
> Double check your appid and see if the problem still persists. Also
make
> sure you donąt have two dashes after the appid value.
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
> On 7/10/08 9:09 PM, "Ian" <iankel@...> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >
> > 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 proper escaping). I get the same error
regardless...
> >
> > 400 Error with the message:
> >
> > The requested URL "/ysearch/web/v1/flowers?appid=my.appid--
> > &format=xml&start=0&count=10", is invalid.
> >
> > According to the docs a 400 error is returned if there are
unescaped
> > reserved characters in the URL. However there are clearly none of
these
> > in the URL above.
> >
> > Is anyone else having this problem?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> >
> >
>

 

Let me clarify... obviously the app ID in my sample is not my actual
app ID.

If you use an incorrect app ID you get an error about the app ID, not
about the format of the URL.

Also two dashes (which by the way are part of my real app ID) will
not cause an invalid URL error.

--- In ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com <mailto:ysearchboss%40yahoogroups.com> , Vik Singh <viksi@...> wrote:
>
> It works for me. The only difference between your URL and mine is
my appid
> value.
>
> http://boss.yahooapis.com/ysearch/web/v1/flowers?
appid=WzAiMejIkY1NaRgU_UvMh
> d&format=xml&start=0&count=10
>
> * I removed some characters from the appid so this URL won’t work
but just
> wanted to show the format of the url
>
>
> Double check your appid and see if the problem still persists. Also
make
> sure you don’t have two dashes after the appid value.
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
> On 7/10/08 9:09 PM, "Ian" <iankel@...> wrote:
>
> >  
> >  
> >
> > 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 proper escaping). I get the same error
regardless...
> >
> > 400 Error with the message:
> >
> > The requested URL "/ysearch/web/v1/flowers?appid=my.appid--
> > &format=xml&start=0&count=10", is invalid.
> >
> > According to the docs a 400 error is returned if there are
unescaped
> > reserved characters in the URL. However there are clearly none of
these
> > in the URL above.
> >
> > Is anyone else having this problem?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> >  
> >
>

 
    

--- In ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com, "sglaesser79" >
> I get the following message during site registration process:
>
> Result: Pass (checked http://www.xxxxxxxxx.xxx/ydn5jL63Q.html ). You
> can remove this file now.
>
> Than I click at "Continue" and the result is the following:
>
> Result: unchecked

Hi Stefan,


I work at Yahoo!. This looks like a bug to me. I've filed a bug. Let's
now wait for the developers to get into action and fix it :) I shall
keep you updated on this bug.

thanks,

   -Suraj