Yahoo! Launches BOSS, its Open Search Web Services Platform

Last week Yahoo! announced the launching of Yahoo! Search BOSS, a web services platform that allows developers and companies to create and launch web-scale search products by utilizing the same infrastructure and technology that powers Yahoo! Search. BOSS (Build your Own Search Service) is an API or library of functions that can be used by programmers in their own software in order to freely create their own search applications:

  • By using Yahoo! Search's index and infrastructure
  • Possibility of presenting results in a different order than the one used by Yahoo! and adding additional information, links, etc.
  • Total freedom and flexibility in presenting the results
  • Unlimited number of daily queries.

When we know that Yahoo!'s algorithm is not that different from Google's in terms of results, we can only suppose that BOSS will please a vast community of developers and numerous projects will start emerging. We'll follow them closely!

Yahoo! BOSS

Sources:

- http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/
- http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000599.html