Hey All,
   My BOSS php script returns a 406 exception for certain queries.
Check out this page.
  http://riteshnayak.com/morey_intro.html

  Certain queries work fine, but search for say : python ngrams

  Have looked up docs on it but not able to figure this one out. Please
help.

Thanks and Regards
Ritesh M Nayak
http://riteshnayak.com

Hi,
I've been trying to figure out if it's ok to use BOSS for commercial
applications with the standard API they issue.

Thing is - Flickr, for example, have different criteria and access in
case you want to use a commercial application.

Can anyone help?
Do you know what are the limitations if any on the BOSS API usage?
like running ads, what details to display on search results, etc...

I've used "inurl:" option in search query and I've got some results
from other sites not included in this filter.

Please, could you explain how exactly works this option?

Thanks.

--- In ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com, Vik Singh <viksi@...> wrote:
>
> Your search query should be like ³inurl:www.megavideo.com²
>
> thanks
>
>
> On 9/28/08 6:08 AM, "samehmajdoub" <nrx2005@...> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >
> > Hello ,
> >
> > im new the BOSS api and i want to ask how to do to make searches
> > limited to a specific url patterns  for example : searc for just urls
> > that have in it : http://www.megavideo.com/?v=
> >
> > thx
> >
> >
> >
>

Ritesh,

I did a test on buildasearch using your "python ngrams" and it seems to produce
valid
results.  http://www.buildasearch.com/earthoid?e=python+ngrams&submit=search

Just a did a query on your search. The 406 error might be a coding issue on your
service.

Diego



--- In ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com, "itsmeritesh" <itsmeritesh@...> wrote:
>
> Hey All,
>   My BOSS php script returns a 406 exception for certain queries.
> Check out this page.
>  http://riteshnayak.com/morey_intro.html
>
>  Certain queries work fine, but search for say : python ngrams
>
>  Have looked up docs on it but not able to figure this one out. Please
> help.
>
> Thanks and Regards
> Ritesh M Nayak
> http://riteshnayak.com
>

You can use the BOSS API for commercial applications and has unlimited query
usage.  One of
main restrictions for the API is placing 3rd party ADs on the custom BOSS
application.


--- In ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com, "liorgini" <liorgini@...> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I've been trying to figure out if it's ok to use BOSS for commercial
> applications with the standard API they issue.
>
> Thing is - Flickr, for example, have different criteria and access in
> case you want to use a commercial application.
>
> Can anyone help?
> Do you know what are the limitations if any on the BOSS API usage?
> like running ads, what details to display on search results, etc...
>

Inurl will find those words anywhere in the url so it could return noise (like if megaupload occurs at the end of a url). Probably want to use the sites parameter (check the boss docs)

Thank

- mobile

I didn't see this in the TOS, so wanted to make sure this really is
the case? If I have results displayed on my site can I have google
ads? If not, if I can get in the beta of the yahoo ads service, is
that acceptable? I know a revision of the TOS is coming up, so if I
should just sit tight, I can do that too.

--- In ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com, "dmontal2" <bugs@...> wrote:
>
> You can use the BOSS API for commercial applications and has
unlimited query usage.  One of
> main restrictions for the API is placing 3rd party ADs on the custom
BOSS application.
>
>
> --- In ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com, "liorgini" <liorgini@> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > I've been trying to figure out if it's ok to use BOSS for commercial
> > applications with the standard API they issue.
> >
> > Thing is - Flickr, for example, have different criteria and access in
> > case you want to use a commercial application.
> >
> > Can anyone help?
> > Do you know what are the limitations if any on the BOSS API usage?
> > like running ads, what details to display on search results, etc...
> >
>

--- In ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com, "Ashim Chhabra" <achhabra@...> wrote:
> On Friday 9/26 we indicated a planned upgrade on 10/3 which included
>
> 1) improved url encoding for special characters in BOSS urls
> 2) BOSS urls wrapped in CDATA as added precaution
>
> For this upgrade we are NOT going to include item #2. It will cause
> too much of an inconvenience to developers and potential to break live
> code is high.
>
> We'll focus on item #1 for this release. I'll share the updated set of
> output for your reassurance.

The BOSS web services were updated this morning (between 9:30 and
10:00am Pacific time). This release fixes two issues:

1. ClickURL fields could contain characters breaking the XML; these
are now properly escaped
2. In the "prev/next" links returned, the AppID included now matches
the original AppID provided, so the links will now work properly

If anyone sees any further issues related to XML being incorrect,
please report them here and include example queries.

thanks!
Brian Cantoni
Yahoo! Developer Network

Does anyone have any good ideas for addtl things we can add in there to
make things better or different?

Any apis we can tap into somewhere or something?
Or maybe some software we can put on our servers to enhance things?

<title><![CDATA[MedlinePlus: <b>Pain</b>]]></title>
       <title>T-Pain</title>
       <title><![CDATA[WebMD <b>Pain</b> Management Center - Find
<b>pain</b> management information and the <b>...</b>]]></title>

^^^

While investigating a bug in my boss search results today, I noticed the
<title></title> only SOMETIMES includes the ><![CDATA[ enclosure ,
which has led to weird display results on my pages. The three title results
above are from a single search for "pain". Is this the way it's supposed to
be?

At:

http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/boss_guide/univer_api_query.html#
url_vs_clickurl

It says:

url vs clickurl
Note There is a requirement to include the clickurl in anchor link of your
search results.

I checked the TOS, and it does not seem to mention we need to use
clickurl.

Also, NOT EVEN 4hoursearch.com is actually using clickurl, but _some_
of the sites created with BOSS are using it.

I have my site sending people through the clickurl url for now, but in the
future, do we need to or not??

Hi, after the upgrade, I'm seeing weird intermittent Forbidden returns
again in clickurls, e.g.

http://lrd.yahooapis.com/_ylc=X3oDMTRvMG1kamVwBF9TAzIwMjMxNTI3MDIEYXBwaWQDcnhBSF\
NrVElrWTBhOXF4dl9taklQc0pENlJJY1RDQ0luMm9FOE1kSzJEZkpCXzZRBHBvcwMwBHNlcnZpY2UDWV\
NlYXJjaFdlYgRzbGsDdGl0bGUEc3JjcHZpZANVTURCTFVTTzVxXzZ1Y3U4Z3B5SnBRQkZTRjc1SkVqb3\
Blb0FCNTBf/SIG=11i4do52a/**http%3A//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_(computing)

http://lrd.yahooapis.com/_ylc=X3oDMTRvaTJuOXJrBF9TAzIwMjMxNTI3MDIEYXBwaWQDcnhBSF\
NrVElrWTBhOXF4dl9taklQc0pENlJJY1RDQ0luMm9FOE1kSzJEZkpCXzZRBHBvcwMyBHNlcnZpY2UDWV\
NlYXJjaFdlYgRzbGsDdGl0bGUEc3JjcHZpZAM2Q2t6TGtTTzVxLnYyTnVaOXFvLndRQ2ZTRjc1SkVqb3\
BUNEFDTU1p/SIG=126b2bstc/**http%3A//goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au/~hali/test.php%3Frando\
mval=268459693



Please help!


--- In ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com, "Brian Cantoni" <bcantoni@...> wrote:
>
> --- In ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com, "Ashim Chhabra" <achhabra@> wrote:
> > On Friday 9/26 we indicated a planned upgrade on 10/3 which included
> >
> > 1) improved url encoding for special characters in BOSS urls
> > 2) BOSS urls wrapped in CDATA as added precaution
> >
> > For this upgrade we are NOT going to include item #2. It will cause
> > too much of an inconvenience to developers and potential to break live
> > code is high.
> >
> > We'll focus on item #1 for this release. I'll share the updated set of
> > output for your reassurance.
>
> The BOSS web services were updated this morning (between 9:30 and
> 10:00am Pacific time). This release fixes two issues:
>
> 1. ClickURL fields could contain characters breaking the XML; these
> are now properly escaped
> 2. In the "prev/next" links returned, the AppID included now matches
> the original AppID provided, so the links will now work properly
>
> If anyone sees any further issues related to XML being incorrect,
> please report them here and include example queries.
>
> thanks!
> Brian Cantoni
> Yahoo! Developer Network
>

Is there any speed difference (on the Yahoo side) on average return
speed for the XML vs JSON format?

There should be some provision for including the 3rd party ads along
with the compulsory Yahoo sponsored ads. Otherwise, it doesn't make
any sense in saying that BOSS is open source and start putting
restrictions on it. Really looking forward to the new and detailed TOS.



--- In ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com, "dmontal2" <bugs@...> wrote:
>
> You can use the BOSS API for commercial applications and has
unlimited query usage.  One of
> main restrictions for the API is placing 3rd party ADs on the custom
BOSS application.
>
>
> --- In ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com, "liorgini" <liorgini@> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > I've been trying to figure out if it's ok to use BOSS for commercial
> > applications with the standard API they issue.
> >
> > Thing is - Flickr, for example, have different criteria and access in
> > case you want to use a commercial application.
> >
> > Can anyone help?
> > Do you know what are the limitations if any on the BOSS API usage?
> > like running ads, what details to display on search results, etc...
> >
>

Hi. In a CNET news article on the launch of the BOSS service, there's
a screenshot of a demo showing web page previews. See
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-9986424-93.html . Has anyone seen the
demo? Is the demo a web application or a desktop app? I can't tell
from the picture. Is the demo available online? I want to check out it
myself because I don't see anything in the BOSS API that would return
or generate web page previews for you (unless I missed something in
the documentation). Thanks.

Forrest

http://copyrightspot.com/

I wrote this app in the past 4 weeks moonlighting after work.  Results are
decent for alpha, still needs a lot of fine tuning.  Check it out and let me
know what you think.

A big thanks to the BOSS team.  This API is kick ass.

Thanks,
Matt

Hi!. Reading the BOSS documentation I've found this in "Response
Fields" section:

<totalhits: A result count that reflects no duplicates (the doc
argument) and only two results per host (the host 2 argument). The
totalhits value is an approximation, ...>

These arguments (doc and host 2) does not appear in the documentation.
Please could you explain what are them for?

Because I have 2 problems filtering results per sites (sites arg.):
-I get lot of results from the same site
-I only can filter by groups of 25-30 sites each time

So, please! can I have any hope about these problems/limitations will
be solved anytime?

Thanks for your help.

--- In ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com, "appleorange72002" <appleorange72002@...>
wrote:
>
> Hi. In a CNET news article on the launch of the BOSS service, there's
> a screenshot of a demo showing web page previews. See
> http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-9986424-93.html . Has anyone seen the
> demo? Is the demo a web application or a desktop app? I can't tell
> from the picture. Is the demo available online? I want to check out it
> myself because I don't see anything in the BOSS API that would return
> or generate web page previews for you (unless I missed something in
> the documentation). Thanks.
>
> Forrest
>


Hi Forrest. BOSS doesn't provide the website thumbnails as you are asking about.
Take a
look at our new search engine powered by BOSS that we are releasing today as
part of the
Mashable BOSS Challenge entry.

For the last 2 years we've been developing a scalable platform to capture and
deliver these
thumbnails, powered by the Amazon AWS infrastructure. We are still in private
beta, but
you can signup now... You can see a use case of these thumbnails in our
uQuery.com
website. Soon this will be freely available for developers.

BOSS powered app:
http://www.uquery.com

PageGlimpse Platform:
http://blog.pageglimpse.com

Thanks,
Marcio Castilho

Is this still under development?  What I want is, when I send a search
string, I want access to all of the hits, and all of the keywords
associated with each of the hits.  Is this in development?  If so,
what is the estimated availability of it? I appreciate any information.

Thanks,
Dino

 

Is there any speed difference (on the Yahoo side) on average return
speed for the XML vs JSON format?

 
    

Hello,

I'm trying to set language selection with the universal BOSS API
arguments "&lang=..", but it seems to have to effects ...!

This is two query about the word "toto", one in english, one in
french, it outputs the same totalhits value!

Query : "toto" in english
--------
http://boss.yahooapis.com/ysearch/web/v1/toto?appid=XXX&lang=en

response: "totalhits":"3711685
-----------
{"ysearchresponse":{"responsecode":"200","nextpage":"\/ysearch\/web\/v1\/toto?ap\
pid=BhrIZBLV34GS5DiKaLQnfudV4n9Fd0PWn1l._i9R4GtO.e6BAqFyqxhlNdAWxEZu1baeJ2o-&lan\
g=en&start=10","totalhits":"3711685","deephits":"114000000","count":"10","start"\
:"0","resultset_web"
[...]


AND

Query : "toto" in french
--------
http://boss.yahooapis.com/ysearch/web/v1/toto?appid=XXX&lang=fr

response: "totalhits":"3711685.  THIS SHOULDN'T BE THE SAME VALUE!
---------

{"ysearchresponse":{"responsecode":"200","nextpage":"\/ysearch\/web\/v1\/toto?ap\
pid=BhrIZBLV34GS5DiKaLQnfudV4n9Fd0PWn1l._i9R4GtO.e6BAqFyqxhlNdAWxEZu1baeJ2o-&lan\
g=fr&start=10","totalhits":"3711685","deephits":"114000000","count":"10","start"\
:"0","resultset_web"


any help ?

Thanks in advance,
  Hubert.

Totalhits might be based more on the region param which is default us in both queries

Are you intending to search fr results in the us market? If no, then try changing the region param.

Let us know if that works

Best

- sent mobile

solution is "setting both language & region at the same time"

...

It's still doesn't work :

[my goal, here, is to know if there is more web pages about "toto" in
france than in unites states.]


Q :
http://boss.yahooapis.com/ysearch/web/v1/toto?appid=BhrIZBLV34GS5DiKaLQnfudV4n9F\
d0PWn1l._i9R4GtO.e6BAqFyqxhlNdAWxEZu1baeJ2o-&lang=fr®ion=fr

A :
{"ysearchresponse":{"responsecode":"200","nextpage":"\/ysearch\/web\/v1\/toto?ap\
pid=BhrIZBLV34GS5DiKaLQnfudV4n9Fd0PWn1l._i9R4GtO.e6BAqFyqxhlNdAWxEZu1baeJ2o-&lan\
g=fr®ion=fr&start=10","totalhits":"3685472","deephits":"110000000","count":"1\
0","start":"0","resultset_web"
            --------------------
[...]


{"ysearchresponse":{"responsecode":"200","nextpage":"\/ysearch\/web\/v1\/toto?ap\
pid=BhrIZBLV34GS5DiKaLQnfudV4n9Fd0PWn1l._i9R4GtO.e6BAqFyqxhlNdAWxEZu1baeJ2o-&lan\
g=en®ion=us&start=10","totalhits":"3680028","deephits":"113000000","count":"1\
0","start":"0","resultset_web"
           ---------------------
[...]

totalhits is more or less the same, but it's not possible!! : there
should be far more pages in "us" region than in france...

 

Take a look at this site -
http://www.thumbshots.org/

They provide thumbnails for any website. The quality of screenshots from the free version isn't that good. The API is below -
http://open.thumbshots.org/image.aspx?url=<url>
http://open.thumbshots.org/image.aspx?url=http://www.yahoo.com/

I wrote a similar mashup a month back -
http://yahoovisualsearch.appspot.com/

Thanks,
Praveen.

----- Original Message ----
From: Ted Drake <tdrake@...>
To: ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, October 6, 2008 12:24:15 PM
Subject: RE: [ysearchboss] BOSS Visual Search Demo

 
 

This would be a mashup application. You would have to take the results and then use each result to request a screenshot from a different api. You would then display the screen shot instead of the text results. Then use CSS and Javascript or Flash to make the nifty scroll feature.

 

I don’t know if this is BOSS powered or not, but here’s the most popular example of this search engine metaphor http://www.searchme .com/ <http://www.searchme.com/>

Ted

 

 

---

From: ysearchboss@ yahoogroups. com [mailto: ysearchboss@ yahoogroups. com ] On Behalf Of appleorange72002
Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2008 3:26 PM
To: ysearchboss@ yahoogroups. com
Subject: [ysearchboss] BOSS Visual Search Demo

  
 
Hi. In a CNET news article on the launch of the BOSS service, there's
a screenshot of a demo showing web page previews. See
http://news. cnet.com/ 8301-1023_ 3-9986424- 93.html <http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-9986424-93.html> . Has anyone seen the
demo? Is the demo a web application or a desktop app? I can't tell
from the picture. Is the demo available online? I want to check out it
myself because I don't see anything in the BOSS API that would return
or generate web page previews for you (unless I missed something in
the documentation) . Thanks.

Forrest
 
 
  

 
 
    

I still have the same results ...


Query of "toto" gives more or less the same number of hits
whatever I'm asking for pages in french (and in france) or in english
(and in the US)...

It can't be true !

... any help appreciated.

regard,
  Hubert.





--- In ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com, "Vik Singh" <viksi@...> wrote:
>
> Totalhits might be based more on the region param which is default
us in both queries
>
> Are you intending to search fr results in the us market? If no, then
try changing the region param.
>
> Let us know if that works
>
> Best
>
> - sent mobile
>
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com
> To: ysearchboss@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Mon Oct 06 13:35:56 2008
> Subject: [ysearchboss] language & region parameter have no effect !?
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to set language selection with the universal BOSS API
> arguments "&lang=..", but it seems to have to effects ...!
>
> This is two query about the word "toto", one in english, one in
> french, it outputs the same totalhits value!
>
> Query : "toto" in english
> --------
> http://boss.yahooapis.com/ysearch/web/v1/toto?appid=XXX&lang=en
<http://boss.yahooapis.com/ysearch/web/v1/toto?appid=XXX&lang=en>
>
> response: "totalhits":"3711685
> -----------
>
{"ysearchresponse":{"responsecode":"200","nextpage":"\/ysearch\/web\/v1\/toto?ap\
pid=BhrIZBLV34GS5DiKaLQnfudV4n9Fd0PWn1l._i9R4GtO.e6BAqFyqxhlNdAWxEZu1baeJ2o-&lan\
g=en&start=10","totalhits":"3711685","deephits":"114000000","count":"10","start"\
:"0","resultset_web"
> [...]
>
> AND
>
> Query : "toto" in french
> --------
> http://boss.yahooapis.com/ysearch/web/v1/toto?appid=XXX&lang=fr
<http://boss.yahooapis.com/ysearch/web/v1/toto?appid=XXX&lang=fr>
>
> response: "totalhits":"3711685. THIS SHOULDN'T BE THE SAME VALUE!
> ---------
>
>
{"ysearchresponse":{"responsecode":"200","nextpage":"\/ysearch\/web\/v1\/toto?ap\
pid=BhrIZBLV34GS5DiKaLQnfudV4n9Fd0PWn1l._i9R4GtO.e6BAqFyqxhlNdAWxEZu1baeJ2o-&lan\
g=fr&start=10","totalhits":"3711685","deephits":"114000000","count":"10","start"\
:"0","resultset_web"
>
> any help ?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Hubert.
>