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Searchmonkey data is now much easier in BOSS

Ted — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:03:40 +0000

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:” 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

Dynamic “sites” Creation for Vertical Search

Ted — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 08:56:35 +0000

I 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.

Yahoo adds Delicious data to search partnership (news.cnet.com)
Yahoo BOSS Adds Support for Delicious (programmableweb.com)
Yahoo to Enable Custom Semantic Search Engines (readwriteweb.com)
Yahoo! BOSS and trainspotting (slideshare.net)
SearchMonkey and BOSS Take on ETech (ysearchblog.com)

The Future of Vertical Search Engines

Ted — Thu, 07 May 2009 08:48:15 +0000

The Future of Vertical Search Engines

View more presentations from 7mary4.

I gave a presentation at the recent www2009 conference in Madrid about the Future of Vertical Search Engines. It was a great event and I enjoyed watching researchers and developers from across the world informally discuss ideas and collaborations.

The Yahoo! Developer Network just published my blog post: The Future of Vertical Search Engines. The blog post includes much more information that is hard to describe in a simple set of PowerPoint slides.

I hope you find the information helpful. Join the conversation on the YDN blog.

Accentuate your results with Netflix

Ted — Tue, 05 May 2009 19:10:57 +0000

Netflix, the DVD rental company has announced a new series of APIs that open their catalog to developers. Visit the Netflix Developer Section for more information.

This could be used to augment BOSS search results for sites that explore movies, travel, popular culture, and more. It’s worth noting Netflix’s history of innovative user interfaces and two amazingly talented people they grabbed from Yahoo!: Bill Scott and Kent Brewster. These two will keep the Netflix APIs and hackability interesting.

Kent Brewster gives you more information in his blog post Netflix Catalog API Explorer.

Build a semantic Search Engine with BOSS

Ted — Sun, 03 May 2009 17:56:34 +0000

What’s the quickest way to build a semantic search engine? Use BOSS and and the Yahoo! Searchmonkey query filter. You’ll be surprised how much information is available to begin working with.

The Search Monkey Query Filter

This pattern works in the basic Yahoo! search box: searchmonkeyid:com.yahoo.page.uf.{microformat}. It tells Yahoo! Search to only return web pages that include a certain microformat. We can also use this in our BOSS API requests. Here’s a list of structured data surfaced in BOSS via SearchMonkey:

hAtom -
Represents a subset of the Atom syndication format

hCalendar -
Represents calendar dates and events, using a representation of
the iCalendar
standard

hCard -
Represents people, companies, organizations, and places, using a
representation of the vCard standard

hReview -
Represents reviews of products, services, businesses, and
events

XFN – Represents
human relationships using hyperlinks

Geo -
Represents geograhic coordinates

rel-tag – Marks
up the destination of a hyperlink as an author-designated
tag

adr -
Represents address information

Dublin
Core
- Allows developers to specify document metadata

FOAF
- Friend of a Friend specifies personal profiles and social
networks

SIOC
- Specifies elements in blogs, forums and Q&A sites

Other
supported vocabularies – See the SearchMonkey
documentation for a list of other supported vocabularies

Universal BOSS API Query Operators: Apply to Web, Images and News

SearchMonkey in Your BOSS

Now we have the ability to limit our search results to sites that use a particular microformat. We can now ask for this structured data to build our robust search engine We’ll use the SearchMonkey view attributes. There are two variations that define the format of the data.

view=searchmonkey_feed (dataRSS format)
view=searchmonkey_rdf (rdf format)

The following example shows how each look.

Let’s build a semantic music search engine. We’ll start by filtering for hreview microformats to get music reviews about CocoRosie: http://boss.yahooapis.com/ysearch/web/v1/cocorosie+searchmonkeyid:com.yahoo.page.uf.hreview?appid=Your_App_Id&format=xml&start=0&count=15&view=keyterms%2Csearchmonkey_feed%2Csearchmonkey_rdf.

We can use the following sample result to begin inserting reviews as well as other structured data. You’ve got the basic foundation for building an application that presents data-rich information to your users. Explore your favorite rdf and micformat queries to come up with new ideas.

Please leave a comment if you are already using this technique in your site or have similar ideas to share with others.

Sample Result




CocoRosie... love song tekno cocorosie.
Other Info. Lifetime rating of 4.83 ...]]>

http://lrd.yahooapis.com/.../**http%3A//www.blogskins.com/info/150260
2009/04/22
blogskins.com/info/150260]]>


	skin
	Tekno
	Love Song
	download
	BlogSkins
	Skin Info
	fade
	Skin type
	bg
	follow this link
	cocorosie
	Blogger
	tear
	keep well
	Lifetime
	logged-in
	BM
	Random Skin
	Myles
	hmm




	
		
		
			screaming!tragic
			
		
		
		
		
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			madeline_tn
			
		
		
	
	
		
		
			Tekno Love Song
			either continue th patern or don't fade the
			background, and all will look better. but it's still lovely!
			20080421
			
			
			screaming!tragic
			
			
			
			
		
		
		
		
			Tekno Love Song
			you need stars! I think the bg shouldn't fade off.
			Other than that, it's fabulous
			20070903
			
			
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			Tekno Love Song
			hmm.. the bg shouldn't be white. should continue
			the pattern thingy... plus, the picture somehow doesn't appeal to me..
			20070713
			
				
					madeline_tn
					
				
			
			
		
		
	
	
		love
		song
		tekno
		cocorosie
		
			
				love
			
		
		
			
				song
			
		
		
			
				tekno
			
		
		
			
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		don't fade the background, and all will look better. but it's still lovely!
		
	
	
		20080421
	
	
		
	
	
		
	
	
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		Tekno Love Song
	
	
		you need stars! I think
		the bg shouldn't fade off. Other than that, it's fabulous
	
	
		20070903
	
	
		
	
	
		
	
	
		animate_
	
	
		
	
	
		
	
	
		
	
	
		
	
	
		
	
	
		Tekno Love Song
	
	
	hmm.. the bg shouldn't
	be white. should continue the pattern thingy... plus, the picture somehow
	doesn't appeal to me..
	
	
		20070713
	
	
		
	
	
		
	
	
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