Monthly Archive for June, 2009

Dynamic “sites” Creation for Vertical Search

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Ted
on June 15, 2009
in BOSS Functionality, Relevancy, Sites attribute, Skills Matter, Tips and Tricks and Yahoo! Developer Network
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Yahoo! BOSSI recently did a presentation in London with Skills Matter about Yahoo! BOSS. The small group was filled with ideas about extending BOSS functionality. I wrote a new post for the Yahoo Developer Network that expands on some of these concepts: Make BOSS More Dynamic.

The post discusses the idea of generating the “sites” argument, which tells BOSS to limit the results to a specified list of web sites, dynamically for each query. This allows each query to determine what sites are experts and then create a result set based on those experts.

I have built a prototype and will release it this week after I have a time to clean up some of the loose ends.

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Vertical Search Exploration with SkillsMatter in London

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Ted
on June 3, 2009
in BOSS Events, Skills Matter, Tutorials and Yahoo! Developer Network
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Yahoo! BOSS and trainspotting

I gave a presentation last night with Skills Matter in London. This presentation goes beyond the basic statistics of BOSS and shows how a fictional Trainspotter uses BOSS to build his ultimate trainspotting enthusiast web site.

Skills Matter is a great organization that provides daily classes about open source and agile work techniques. They also provide courses around Europe in various programming languages and techniques. Check out Skills Matter’s schedules to see if an event is coming to your area.

I will be following up with another post about some of the conversations from this event.

You’ll see example BOSS requests at the end of the slideshow. Simply replace the fictional tomstrains.com urls and your application id to see the resulting xml.

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