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Finding stuff on the web using Yahoo! BOSS

by:Yash Dayal

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/bijoymohan/426578345/

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Yahoo! BOSS

© Wikipedia

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Yahoo! BOSS

BUILD your

OWN

SEARCH

SERVICE

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An API interface, like a gateway to our search data stores

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Build your own powerful Search Applications

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Why do you need to know BOSS?

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BOSS allows you to search

web, newsimages and blogs

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You can even Monetize your

applications using Search Ads

from BOSS

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What can you customize?

Flexibility to Blend and Re-Rank Results

• Create your own look and feel• Change Ranking• Mix with other API’s

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All good things come at a cost…

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How do I start hacking with

Yahoo! BOSS ?

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BOSS uses oAuth based authentication

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Get a free consumer keyand secret from

http://www.hackyourworld.org

Ok!.. Now what?

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The easiest way to test stuff out is to use the

YQL Console

http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console

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select * from boss.search where q=”Iron Man" and service="images" and ck="..." and secret="..."

select * from boss.search where q=”Iron Man"

and service="news” and ck="..." and secret="..."

select * from boss.search where q=”Iron Man" and sites="imdb.com,

movies.yahoo.com" and ck="..." and secret="..."

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You can check spellings and get suggestions

Spell Check and Correctionselect * from boss.search

where q=”Irin Man” and service="spelling" and

ck="..." and secret="..."

Content Analysis

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa_goddard/5188180370/

select * from contentanalysis.analyze where

text="Yahoo! kicks off OpenHack at Hyderabad"

Content Analysis from a URL

select * from contentanalysis.analyze where

url="http://www.cnn.com/"

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Find images of “Iron Man”

select * from boss.search where q=”Iron Man" and service="images" and ck="..." and secret="..."

Find reviews of “Iron Man”

select * from boss.search where q="reviews in title: Iron Man" and service="web" and ck="..." and secret="…"

Search for Iron Man but not the movie:

select * from boss.search where q=”Iron Man -movie" and ck="..." and secret="... "

Search pdfs of “Iron Man”

select * from boss.search where q=”Iron Man" and type="pdf" and ck="..." and secret="..."

Find all the news of “Iron Man”

select * from boss.search where q="Iron Man" and service="news" and ck="..." and secret="..."

Get long abstracts in the results

select * from boss.search where q="Iron Man" and abstract="long" and ck="..." and secret="…"

Retrieve 51-100 results of the query

select * from boss.search where q="Iron Man" and start=51 and ck="..." and secret="... "

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Hurray!!

Almost the end…

www.duckduckgo.com

More ResourcesYahoo! BOSS: http://developer.yahoo.com/boss/

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

BOSS Geo Technical Documentation: http://developer.yahoo.com/boss/geo/

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

oAuth: http://oauth.net/

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

Open Data: http://theinfo.org

Alt Search Engines: http://www.altsearchengines.com/

Thanks!!

http://flickr.com/photos/42788859@N00/318947873/