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BOSS HackU IITD
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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BOSS HackU IITD
- 1. @pradeepbvI work inthe Y! Media team
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- 5. What is BOSS?Myshiny little search…Build yourOwnSearchServicehttp//www.flickr.com/photos/jmorgan/4189271428/sizes/o/in/photostream/.jpg
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- 7. What does BOSSprovide?Search Data and Infrastructure Extracted from Ra One poster - http://in.movies.yahoo.com
- 8. What does BOSSprovide?Monetizationhttp//www.flickr.com/photos/imuttoo/1189793194/sizes/o/in/photostream/.jpg
- 9. What does BOSSprovide?Support and ToolsYes Boss movie poster
- 10. Restful XML andJSON API Web
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- 14. Search AdsWhat doI get?http//www.flickr.com/photos/joeshlabotnik/419914250/sizes/o/in/photostream/.jpg
- 15. Flexibility to Blendand Re-rank ResultsCreate your own look and feelChange rankingMix it with other API’sWhat can I do on top?http://www.flickr.com/photos/balajijegan/6242907231/in/photostream
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- 17. What else doI get?Web and Limited Web results
- 18. Image attributes like height, width, etcTime span filtering for News Search Document type filtering
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- 20. How DO Ihack with it?
- 21. BOSS + YQLTableName: boss.searche.g. select * from boss.search where ck=… and secret=… and q=‘iitd’
- 22. And through theBOSS APIGetting multiple data sets
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- 26. A Simple MovieSearch
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- 30. Important: Use Bracesor quotesUnary OperatorsSearch for Batman but not “Dark Knight”
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- 32. Find pages with“Heath Ledger” but not “Dark Knight”
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- 36. Searching in bodyand in titleSearching for Dark Knight in the Title on Yahoo movies
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- 38. Searching for DarkKnight in the Title in Yahoo movies containing Christian Bale
- 39. q=reviews intitle:"dark knight"inbody:"christian bale"&sites=movies.yahoo.comMarket and document specific FiltersSearch for “Dark Knight” in India specific sites
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- 41. Search for “PDF’scontaining “Dark Knight”
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- 43. Search for MSOffice type (except PPT’s) containing “Dark Knight”
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- 45. Image search parametersSearchfor images that are not offensive
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- 47. Search for imagesthat are wallpaper size
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- 49. Search for aimage at a certain refer URL
- 50. /ysearch/images?q=yahoo&refererurl=http://www.flickr.comInteresting Output Fieldsformat,file size, height, width, title, total result countNews search parameters Search news that is less than 7 days old
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- 52. Search news thatis between 20hrs and 2 days old
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- 54. Re-rank news resultsby date
- 55. /ysearch/news?q=lokpal&ranking=trueInteresting Output Fields Source, Date, Source URLExample hacks
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- 58. Inquisitor: Browser Extenstion(v1) 26Hack: http://www.inquisitorx.com/firefox/index_en.php
- 59. Ask-boss (v1)Hack: http://ask-boss.appspot.comCode:https://github.com/saurabhsahni/Hacks/tree/master/askBOSS
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- 61. More resourcesYahoo! BOSS:http://developer.yahoo.com/boss
- 62. BOSS Technical Documentation:http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/boss_api_guide/
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- 65. Google App Engine:http: //appengine.google.com
- 66. Amazon Web Services:http://aws.amazon.com
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- 70. Alt Search Engines:http://www.altsearchengines.com/ Thank You!&happy hacking
Editor's Notes
- #2 Hi I am Pradeep B V. I work in the Y! Media team. Yup the team behind sites like omg!, lifestyle and movies.
- #3 People in my team put together the Movieplex. Who else gets to watch movies as a part of their job?
- #4 I am here to talk about BOSS.
- #8 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.
- #9 BOSSprovides you Search Advertising and simple terms so that you can monetize that innovative product and continue to invest your personal time in it.
- #10 BOSSalso gives you Support and Tools to get your product working.
- #11 Add Images here
- #12 Add Images here
- #13 BOSSalso gives you Support and Tools to get your product working.
- #17 Choose a funny image here
- #28 Add more
- #29 Add more
- #30 Fix these links