Yahoo! Search BOSS

1. Yahoo! Search BOSS Praveen P.N (praveenp@yahoo-inc.com) twitter @holydevil

2. What is BOSS? Build your Own Search Service

4. Monetization (We give you Ads!!)

5. Support and ToolsBOSSis a service that provides you (the developer) flexible access to different types of data from Yahoo and allows you to build powerful commercial search applications with that data. BOSSprovides you Search Advertising and simple terms so that you can monetize that innovative product and continue to invest your personal time in it. $$$$ BOSSalso gives you Support and Tools to get your product working.

7. Web, Image, Spelling, News and Search Ads

8. More services soon

9. Flexibility to Blend and Re-rank Results

10. Create your own look and feel

11. Change ranking

12. Mix it with other API’s

13. OAuthbased AuthenticationWhat does that mean?

15. Complex query combinations and filters

16. Search for data in different markets

17. Image attributes like height, width, etc

18. Time span filtering for News Search

19. Document type filtering

20. Extended abstracts

23. Visit BOSS Page or wait until the end for pricing

24. Simplified pricing based on query type

25. A combined bill for developers taking Search Advertising

26. One signup, use in any marketDon’t bother for now, we have a key setup for you

28. Powers secondary APIs

29. Can be generated by a search box, URL, tags or keyword extraction from the page.

30. Generates related topics

31. The Query is your BFF! e.g. http://yboss.yahooapis.com/ysearch/web?q=“Dark Knight”&format=xml

33. /ysearch/web,images,news?q=anna

34. /ysearch/web,images,news?web.q=anna&images.q=anna&news.q=lokpal

35. Searching through sites

36. A Simple Movie Search

37. /ysearch/web?q=“Dark Knight”&sites=movies.yahoo.com,netflix.com,imdb.com

38. AND/OR operators

39. /ysearch/web?q="stevejobs"AND((ipad)OR(iphone))&sites=bestbuy.com,newegg.com

41. q=(batman -“Dark Knight")

42. Find pages with “Heath Ledger” but not “Dark Knight”

43. q=+”heath ledger”–”Dark Knight”&sites=movies.yahoo.com

44. Force auto-spelling off

45. q=+”drk knight”AND OR

47. q=reviews intitle:"dark knight"&sites=movies.yahoo.com

48. Searching for Dark Knight in the Title in Yahoo movies containing Christian Bale

50. q=“Dark Knight”&market=en-in

51. Search for “PDF’s containing “Dark Knight”

52. q=“Dark Knight”&type=pdf

53. Search for MS Office type (except PPT’s) containing “Dark Knight”

56. /ysearch/images?q=“san francisco”&filter=yes

57. Search for images that are wallpaper size

58. /ysearch/images?q=“san francisco”&dimensions=wallpaper

59. Search for a image at a certain refer URL

61. /ysearch/news?q=lokpal&age=7d

62. Search news that is between 20hrs and 2 days old

63. /ysearch/news?q=lokpal&age=20h2d

64. Re-rank news results by date

67. Nonce – Random string generated by oAuth (prevents replay attacks)

68. Signature – Generated by library

69. Signature Method – Various types of methods supported (e.g. HMAC-SHA1)

70. oAuth Timestamp –Unix time (valid for 5 minutes only)

71. oAuth version – 1.0We have code samples in PHP, Perl, Ruby for you!!

73. Twitter/Facebook API

74. Video

75. YouTube data API

76. Vertical search engines

77. Programmable web has interesting API’s

78. Local Search Engines

79. Yahoo Geocoding services e.g. Placefinder

80. Chrome extensions

82. Duckduckgo.com

83. Interceder

84. Inquisitor: Browser Extenstion (v1) 22 Hack: http://www.inquisitorx.com/firefox/index_en.php

85. Ask-boss (v1) Hack: http://ask-boss.appspot.com Code: https://github.com/saurabhsahni/Hacks/tree/master/askBOSS

86. webmeme.com

88. BOSS Technical Documentation: http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/boss_api_guide/

89. YQL: http://developer.yahoo.com/yql

90. Fire Eagle: http://developer.yahoo.com/fireeagle/

91. Google App Engine: http: //appengine.google.com

92. Amazon Web Services: http://aws.amazon.com

93. oAuth: http://oauth.net/

94. Open Social: http://www.opensocial.org/

95. Open Data: http://theinfo.org