Monthly Archive for December, 2009

Watch that Request Length

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Ted
on December 15, 2009
in BOSS Functionality, Sites attribute, Tips and Tricks and Troubleshooting
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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.

  1. 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.
  2. 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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