Finding things on the web with Yahoo! BOSS: IIT Delhi

http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/

• Flexibility to Blend and Re-‐rank Results • Create your own look and feel • Mix it with other API’s h>p://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/balajijegan/6242907231/in/photostream

for your hacks

Where do I start?

http//www.flickr.com/photos/friarsbalsam/5736126308/sizes/o/in/photostream/.jpg

select * from boss.search where q="The Artist"and service="images" and ck="…" andsecret="…"

select * from boss.search where q="The Artist"and sites="imdb.com,movies.yahoo.com" andck="…" and secret="…"

•  select * from boss.search where q="The Aartist" and service="spelling" and ck="…" and secret="…"

•  select * from boss.search where q="The Artist" and service="news" and ck="…" and secret="…"

•  select * from contentanalysis.analyze where url="http://www.cnn.com/"

•  Find images of “The Artist”•  Select * from boss.search where q="The Artist” and service "images" and ck="…" and secret="…"•  Look for “The Artist” reviews:•  select * from boss.search where q="reviews intitle:The Artist" and service="web" and ck="…" and secret="…”•  Search for Artist but not the movie:•  select * from boss.search where q="Artist -movie” and ck="…" and secret="…”•  Search pdfs about “The Artist”:•  Select * from boss.search where q="The Artist” and type="pdf"

•  Find all news about “The Artist”•  select * from boss.search where q="The Artist" and service="news" and ck="…" and secret="…"•  Get long abstracts in results•  select * from boss.search where q="The Artist" and abstract="long" and ck="…" and secret="…"•  Retrieve 51-100 results for the query•  select * from boss.search where q="Artist” and start=51 and ck="…" and secret="…"

Interceder

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Ø  Yahoo! BOSS: http://developer.yahoo.com/bossØ  BOSS Technical Documentation: http://developer.yahoo.com/ search/boss/boss_api_guide/Ø  YQL: http://developer.yahoo.com/yqlØ  Google App Engine: http: //appengine.google.comØ  Amazon Web Services: http://aws.amazon.comØ  oAuth: http://oauth.net/Ø  Open Social: http://www.opensocial.org/Ø  Open Data: http://theinfo.orgØ  Alt Search Engines: http://www.altsearchengines.com/

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Finding things on the web with Yahoo! BOSS: IIT Delhi

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