BOSS HackU IITD
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The document discusses BOSS (Build Your Own Search Service), which is a search API provided by Yahoo. It allows developers to integrate search functionality into their applications by providing RESTful APIs, authentication via OAuth, and tools to customize search results. The document provides examples of how BOSS can be used to perform different types of searches across web, images and news and filter or re-rank results. It also highlights some open source projects that have been built using BOSS and lists additional resources for developers.
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- 1. @pradeepbv I work in the Y! Media team
- 5. What is BOSS? My shiny little search… Build your Own Search Service http//www.flickr.com/photos/jmorgan/4189271428/sizes/o/in/photostream/.jpg
- 6. Your search service… http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/
- 7. What does BOSS provide? Search Data and Infrastructure Extracted from Ra One poster - http://in.movies.yahoo.com
- 8. What does BOSS provide? Monetization http//www.flickr.com/photos/imuttoo/1189793194/sizes/o/in/photostream/.jpg
- 9. What does BOSS provide? Support and Tools Yes Boss movie poster
- 11. Image
- 12. Spelling
- 13. News
- 14. Search AdsWhat do I get? http//www.flickr.com/photos/joeshlabotnik/419914250/sizes/o/in/photostream/.jpg
- 15. 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
- 16. Oauth based Autentication http//www.flickr.com/photos/friarsbalsam/5736126308/sizes/o/in/photostream/.jpg
- 20. How DO I hack with it?
- 21. BOSS + YQL Table Name: boss.search e.g. select * from boss.search where ck=… and secret=… and q=‘iitd’
- 26. A Simple Movie Search
- 28. AND/OR operators
- 32. Find pages with “Heath Ledger” but not “Dark Knight”
- 38. Searching for Dark Knight in the Title in Yahoo movies containing Christian Bale
- 41. Search for “PDF’s containing “Dark Knight”
- 43. Search for MS Office type (except PPT’s) containing “Dark Knight”
- 47. Search for images that are wallpaper size
- 49. Search for a image at a certain refer URL
- 52. Search news that is between 20hrs and 2 days old
- 54. Re-rank news results by date
- 56. Duckduckgo.com
- 57. Interceder
- 58. Inquisitor: Browser Extenstion (v1) 26 Hack: http://www.inquisitorx.com/firefox/index_en.php
- 59. Ask-boss (v1) Hack: http://ask-boss.appspot.com Code: https://github.com/saurabhsahni/Hacks/tree/master/askBOSS
- 60. webmeme.com
- 62. BOSS Technical Documentation: http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/boss_api_guide/
- 65. Google App Engine: http: //appengine.google.com
- 66. Amazon Web Services: http://aws.amazon.com
Editor's Notes
- Hi I am Pradeep B V. I work in the Y! Media team. Yup the team behind sites like omg!, lifestyle and movies.
- People in my team put together the Movieplex. Who else gets to watch movies as a part of their job?
- I am here to talk about BOSS.
- BOSSis a service that provides you (the developer) flexible access to different types of data from Yahoo and allows you to build powerful commercial search applications with that data.
- BOSSprovides you Search Advertising and simple terms so that you can monetize that innovative product and continue to invest your personal time in it.
- BOSSalso gives you Support and Tools to get your product working.
- Add Images here
- Add Images here
- BOSSalso gives you Support and Tools to get your product working.
- Choose a funny image here
- Add more
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