BOSS HackU IITD

@pradeepbv
I work in the Y! Media team

Yahoo! Search BOSS

BOSS?
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What is BOSS?
My shiny little search…
Build your
Own
Search
Service
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Your search service…
http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/

What does BOSS provide?
Search Data and Infrastructure
Extracted from Ra One poster - http://in.movies.yahoo.com

Monetization
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Support and Tools
Yes Boss movie poster

Restful XML and JSON API
Web
Image
Spelling
News
Search Ads
What do I get?
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Flexibility to Blend and Re-rank Results
Create your own look and feel
Change ranking
Mix it with other API’s
What can I do on top?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/balajijegan/6242907231/in/photostream

Oauth based Autentication
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What else do I get?
Web and Limited Web results
Image attributes
like height, width, etc
Time span filtering
for News Search
Document type filtering
Extended abstracts
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How DO I hack with it?

BOSS + YQL
Table Name: boss.search
e.g. select * from boss.search where ck=… and secret=… and q=‘iitd’

And through the BOSS API
Getting multiple data sets
/ysearch/web,images,news?q=anna
/ysearch/web,images,news?web.q=anna&images.q=anna&news.q=lokpal
Searching through sites
A Simple Movie Search
/ysearch/web?q=“Dark Knight”&sites=movies.yahoo.com,netflix.com,imdb.com
AND/OR operators
/ysearch/web?q="stevejobs"AND((ipad)OR(iphone))&sites=bestbuy.com,newegg.com
Important: Use Braces or quotes

Unary Operators
Search for Batman but not “Dark Knight”
q=(batman -“Dark Knight")
Find pages with “Heath Ledger” but not “Dark Knight”
q=+”heath ledger”–”Dark Knight”&sites=movies.yahoo.com
Force auto-spelling off
q=+”drk knight”
AND OR

Searching in body and in title
Searching for Dark Knight in the Title on Yahoo movies
q=reviews intitle:"dark knight"&sites=movies.yahoo.com
Searching for Dark Knight in the Title in Yahoo movies containing Christian Bale
q=reviews intitle:"dark knight" inbody:"christian bale"&sites=movies.yahoo.com

Market and document specific Filters
Search for “Dark Knight” in India specific sites
q=“Dark Knight”&market=en-in
Search for “PDF’s containing “Dark Knight”
q=“Dark Knight”&type=pdf
Search for MS Office type (except PPT’s) containing “Dark Knight”
q=“Dark Knight”&type=msoffice,-ppt

Output

Image search parameters
Search for images that are not offensive
/ysearch/images?q=“san francisco”&filter=yes
Search for images that are wallpaper size
/ysearch/images?q=“san francisco”&dimensions=wallpaper
Search for a image at a certain refer URL
/ysearch/images?q=yahoo&refererurl=http://www.flickr.com
Interesting Output Fields
format, file size, height, width, title, total result count

News search parameters
Search news that is less than 7 days old
/ysearch/news?q=lokpal&age=7d
Search news that is between 20hrs and 2 days old
/ysearch/news?q=lokpal&age=20h2d
Re-rank news results by date
/ysearch/news?q=lokpal&ranking=true
Interesting Output Fields
Source, Date, Source URL

Example hacks

Duckduckgo.com

Interceder

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

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

webmeme.com

More resources
Yahoo! BOSS: http://developer.yahoo.com/boss
BOSS Technical Documentation: http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/boss_api_guide/
YQL: http://developer.yahoo.com/yql
Fire Eagle: http://developer.yahoo.com/fireeagle/
Google App Engine: http: //appengine.google.com
Amazon Web Services: http://aws.amazon.com
oAuth: http://oauth.net/
Open Social: http://www.opensocial.org/
Open Data: http://theinfo.org
Alt Search Engines: http://www.altsearchengines.com/

Thank You!&happy hacking

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