Yahoo! Search BOSS Hack Days in Paris and London

Vik Singh (Architect) Graham Mudd (Senior PMM)

What
Why
Tracks
API
Mashup Framework
Examples
New Feature
Overview

BOSS = B uild your O wn S earch S ervice Open Yahoo’s core search features via web services to let 3rd parties revolutionize Search Unrestricted What

Unrestricted:
Unlimited queries
Blend, re-order, discard
Full Presentation control
Non-search apps OK
Monetization: Free or CPM or Ads
What

Barriers to entry are massive
$300M, top talent, a prayer to get to basic parity
No monopoly over great ideas
Search anywhere
Improve Vertical Quality w/ Web comprehensiveness
Fragment the market, foster more players, choice, competition
Yahoo extends advertising reach, 3rd parties revenue share
Why

Why Traditional Search Distribution + BOSS Distribution

Tracks API A self-service, web services model for developers and start-ups to quickly build and deploy new search experiences.
UIUC
CMU
Stanford
Purdue
IIT Bombay
MIT
UMass
CUSTOM Working with 3rd parties to build a more relevant, brand/site specific web search experience. This option is jointly built by Yahoo! and select partners.
ACADEMIC
Working with the following universities to allow for wide-scale research in the search field:
Interested in Custom? Email us [email_address]

http://boss.yahooapis.com/ysearch/{vert}/v1/{q} {vert} := {web, news, images, spelling} @ required appid @ optional (Y!OS compliant) start, count, lang, region, format, callback, sites BOSS API v1

Python (v2.5+) library BOSS Search SDK plus … SQL for remixing arbitrary XML/JSON sources Loosely Functional programming paradigm BOSS Mashup Framework

select, group, sort, union, inner/outer/cross joins, udfs, where Text normalization and duplicate removal Auto-transformation of resource-oriented API results into tables w/o parsing All-in-memory storage and retrieval operations Ability to join lists of tables via an arbitrary predicate function (map-like) Search UI template framework Single search function provides total access to BOSS REST API BMF Features

Ported enhanced version of BMF to GAE platform http://zooie.wordpress.com/2008/08/04/yahoo-boss-google-app-engine-integrated/ Easiest way to deploy a BOSS application online BMF + Google App Engine

http://bossy.appspot.com
http://www.hakia.com
http://me.dium.com
http://www.daylife.com
http://www.inquisitorx.com/
http://ask-boss.appspot.com/
http://www.4hoursearch.com
http://www.devunity.com (Techcrunch 50)
http://copyrightspot.com/ (Mashable)
http://imusicmash.com (Mashable)
http://truevert.com (Mashable)
http://professeurs.esiea.fr/wassner/?2008/10/20/171-semantic-calculator
http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000613.html
http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000621.html
123people
dnmashup http://www.dnmashup.com
Buildasearch
Playersearch
V3ggie http://v3ggie.com/
Dipidity Newsline
Tianamo
Examples

Discovery (BOSS Search App Store)
Desktop (Cooliris, Inquisitor)
Mobile (iPhone, Android, BlackBerry)
Development php, java, c#, ruby, javascript versions of BMF, SDKs
Social (Facebook, OpenSocial, Friend Connect, OneConnect)
Web Concepts (Semantic, Refine, No-Search Personal RSS like Memes)
No-Search: Use frequent concepts to auto-build a pulse homepage
Hack Ideas, Challenges

So, what do you think? Q&A Docs, App ID, dev group, more info: http://developer.yahoo.com/boss Feedback

Yahoo! Search BOSS Hack Days in Paris and London

by graham_mudd on Nov 14, 2008

Accessibility

Categories

Tags

Upload Details

Usage Rights

Statistics

Yahoo! Search BOSS Hack Days in Paris and London — Presentation Transcript