BOSS’s integration with SearchMonkey provides great structural data. However, it’s a bit tricky to get results filled with the appropriate data. This blog post from the search team introduces the new SearchMonkey query filters: Accessing SearchMonkey Structured Objects via BOSS.
The SearchMonkey team has been encouraging developers to use our structured data to build semantic Web applications ever since we partnered with BOSS. Using the BOSS API, you can access SearchMonkey structured objects.
To restrict the result set to pages with SearchMonkey objects, just add “searchmonkey:<objecttype>” to your query. The result set from BOSS will only contain URLs that have objects of that type.
Accessing SearchMonkey Structured Objects via BOSS
Here’s a list of SearchMonkey filters:
- searchmonkey:video – restricts the result set to videos.
- searchmonkey:product – restricts the result set to products.
- searchmonkey:local – restricts the result set to local businesses.
- searchmonkey:event – restricts the result set to events.
- searchmonkey:document – restricts the result set to presentations, spreadsheets, and similar document formats.
- searchmonkey:discussion – restricts the result set to blogs and forums.
- searchmonkey:game – restricts the result set to Flash games.
Here’s a sample search request for iPhone products:
http://boss.yahooapis.com/ysearch/web/v1/iphone+searchmonkey:product?appid=insert-your-appid&format=xml&start=0&count=15&view=keyterms,searchmonkey_rdf
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Tour de Sound is a music search engine that mashes Yahoo! BOSS with Amazon’s associate service. It allows you to search for music and then visit a resource page that uses Amazon to provide a sample of the song and easy access to download the music.
As a side note, Tour de Sound also uses the YUI Grids to quickly build the layout and design for the site. Save time and effort by using this Grids Builder to layout out your next site.
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Yahoo! BOSS’s sites param gives us great flexibility in creating vertical search engines. However, we are limited by the number of characters. Here are some tips in keeping the length as short as possible.
- Forget passing subdirectories: foo.com/bar is considered the same as foo.com. BOSS will differentiate between subdomains bar.foo.com is not the same as foo.com. In a real-world example passing finance.yahoo.com/news will be interpreted as finance.yahoo.com. But finance.yahoo.com will give a different result than sports.yahoo.com.
- Remove www from the url. This is just wasting space. There may be an exception when the site was not setup to work without the www subdomain. I doubt this would make an impact.
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Middlespot has announced their latest project: Mashtabs. This is a browser-based workspace that lets you curate a collection of web sites, files, and snippets about any subject. It’s a bit like Yahoo! Search Pad, but much more interactive.
Here’s a description by Middlespot:
Have you ever wanted a blank workspace on the web where you could paste anything you like in any order you want? A mashtab lets you do just that.
Collect relevant websites, links, images, videos, files, widgets, and just about anything in one central spot, access it from anywhere, or even embed it in another website.
You can annotate, cluster, layer, pan, resize, tweet and share the content you’ve collected. A mashtab makes a great start page or personal collection of interests.
Mashtab Web Site
Screenshot of mashtabs.com
Mashtab Interface
Developers that are comfortable with Firebug or the Web Developer Toolbar plugins for Firefox will find the interface familiar. There’s a toolbar at the bottom of the page that lets you edit your particular tab. There’s also a search engine above, powered by BOSS, that lets you find new information for your mash tab.
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Yahoo’s announcement about replacing their internal search functionality with Microsoft’s Bing has created a lot of uncertainty.
You can leave your questions for the BOSS team on this BOSS thread: Announcement: “Microsoft, Yahoo! Change Search Landscape”.
This will help keep track of concerns and prepare the answers for you.
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