BOSS (Build Your Own Search Service) allows users to build custom search applications using Yahoo's search database through its APIs. It provides APIs to search over the web, images, news, and blogs. BOSS is free to use for building applications and uses OAuth for security. Developers can obtain a consumer key and secret to authenticate their applications and start using the BOSS APIs.

1. Let’s BOSS
search and geo
http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/

2. BOSS is
Build your own
search service

3. Provides APIs
To our Search
database

4. TO BUILD your own
powerful
Search applications

5. BOSS allows you to
search over
Web, images,
news & Blogs

7. BOSS Pricing

8. Free for building your hacks!!

9. BOSS uses OAuth for security
Code : https://github.com/sourind/hacku/

10. Get a FREE
consumer key and
secret
http://hackyourworld.org/hacku/

11. http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/
console/

13. 1. Select yql query
2. Select output format
3. Copy This url

15. Finding images of “The Dark Knight
Rises”
select * from boss.search where q="The
Dark Knight Rises" and service="images"
and ck="..." and secret="..."

16. Finding “The Dark Knight Rises” in
IMDB, movies.yahoo.com
select * from boss.search where q="The Dark
Knight Rises" and
sites="imdb.com,movies.yahoo.com" and
ck="..." and secret="..."

17. Spell Check and Correction
select * from boss.search where q="The Dirk
Knight Rises" and service="spelling" and
ck="..." and secret="..."

18. Finding news on “The Dark Knight
Rises”
select * from boss.search where q="The Dark
Knight Rises" and service="news" and
ck="..." and secret="..."

19. Lets See it in Action!

20. Query Cheatsheet
• Find images of “The Dark Knight Rises”
• select * from boss.search where q="The Dark Knight
Rises" and service="images" and ck="..." and secret="..."
• Find reviews of “The Dark Knight Rises”
• select * from boss.search where q="reviews intitle:The
Dark Knight Rises" and service="web" and ck="..." and
secret="…"
• Search for Avatar but not the movie:
• select * from boss.search where q="Avatar -movie" and
ck="..." and secret="... "
• Search pdfs of “The Dark Knight Rises”
• select * from boss.search where q="The Dark Knight
Rises" and type="pdf" and ck="..." and secret="..."

21. Query Cheatsheet
• Find all the news of “The Dark Knight Rises”
• select * from boss.search where q="The Dark Knight
Rises" and service="news" and ck="..." and secret="..."
• Get long abstracts in the results
• select * from boss.search where q="The Dark Knight
Rises" and abstract="long" and ck="..." and secret="…"
• Retrieve 51-100 results of the query
• select * from boss.search where q="The Dark Knight
Rises" and start=51 and ck="..." and secret="... "

22. EXAMPLES

23. duckduckgo.com

25. GEO

26. Time Traveler
Paper: Automatic Construction of Travel
Itineraries using Social Breadcrumbs

27. Geo Examples
• Geoplanet: http://y.ahoo.it/164Q9
Select * from geo.places where text="sfo”
• PlaceFinder: http://yhoo.it/VNvKqV
Select * from google.geocoding where q="40.714224,-73.961452”
• PlaceSpotter: http://y.ahoo.it/HmOeY
Infer location from IP & Content
• Get flickr images of Kolkata, searching by geo
http://y.ahoo.it/3byUF

28. Resources
• Yahoo! BOSS api
developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/
boss_api_guide/
• Oauth sample code
https://github.com/sourind/hacku/
• Consumer key and secret
hackyourworld.org/hacku/