BOSS Hacks - an unofficial Yahoo! BOSS blog » Yahoo! Developer Network http://www.bosshacks.com Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:03:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Searchmonkey data is now much easier in BOSS http://www.bosshacks.com/searchmonkey-data-in-boss.html http://www.bosshacks.com/searchmonkey-data-in-boss.html#comments Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:03:40 +0000 Ted http://www.bosshacks.com/?p=173 SearchMonkeyBOSS’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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]]> http://www.bosshacks.com/searchmonkey-data-in-boss.html/feed 0 Tour de Sound – a music search engine http://www.bosshacks.com/tour-de-sound-music-search.html http://www.bosshacks.com/tour-de-sound-music-search.html#comments Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:13:31 +0000 Ted http://www.bosshacks.com/?p=167 Yahoo! BOSSTour 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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]]> http://www.bosshacks.com/tour-de-sound-music-search.html/feed 0 Dynamic “sites” Creation for Vertical Search http://www.bosshacks.com/dynamic-sites-creation-boss.html http://www.bosshacks.com/dynamic-sites-creation-boss.html#comments Mon, 15 Jun 2009 08:56:35 +0000 Ted http://www.bosshacks.com/?p=139 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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]]> http://www.bosshacks.com/dynamic-sites-creation-boss.html/feed 0 Vertical Search Exploration with SkillsMatter in London http://www.bosshacks.com/vertical-search-skillsmatter.html http://www.bosshacks.com/vertical-search-skillsmatter.html#comments Wed, 03 Jun 2009 07:22:28 +0000 Ted http://www.bosshacks.com/?p=135 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.

]]> http://www.bosshacks.com/vertical-search-skillsmatter.html/feed 1 The Future of Vertical Search Engines http://www.bosshacks.com/future-vertical-search.html http://www.bosshacks.com/future-vertical-search.html#comments Thu, 07 May 2009 08:48:15 +0000 Ted http://www.bosshacks.com/?p=6 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.

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]]> http://www.bosshacks.com/future-vertical-search.html/feed 0 Open Hack Day in London http://www.bosshacks.com/open-hackday-london-2009.html http://www.bosshacks.com/open-hackday-london-2009.html#comments Sun, 03 May 2009 15:53:26 +0000 Ted http://www.bosshacks.com/?p=52 Open Hack Day London

Join hordes of hackers in London this weekend for an Open Hack Day, May 9,10 2009. I will be presenting a one-hour discussion of Yahoo! BOSS. Christian Heilmann will discuss YQL with special emphasis on the recently released Execute functionality. There will also be discussions about FireEagle, Blueprint, GeoPlanet, structured markup, YUI, and much more.

Guest judges include David Filo, co-founder of Yahoo! There are still some available tickets. There will be places to crash overnight, so all you need is a computer and the ability to visit London.

Hack the BOSS at Open Hack Day – London
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]]> http://www.bosshacks.com/open-hackday-london-2009.html/feed 0 Start using Delicious data with Yahoo! BOSS http://www.bosshacks.com/delicious-data-with-yahoo-boss.html http://www.bosshacks.com/delicious-data-with-yahoo-boss.html#comments Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:24:06 +0000 Ted http://www.bosshacks.com/?p=35 DeliciousI wrote an article last week for the Yahoo! Developer Network about the recent addition of Delicious data in Yahoo! BOSS search results.

Delicious allows users to save their favorite web sites, add tags for easier discovery, and share them with friends and others. This creates a directory that’s an honest reflection of what sites are important, informational, and entertaining. Yahoo! BOSS + Delicious gives you more control over relevancy. Let’s look at a couple possible examples.
Meet the new BOSS…

BOSS gives you a surprisingly well rounded data set when you combine the Searchmonkey data, keyterms, and Delicious view attributes. I was especially surprised by the non-overlapping tags Delicious users gave to pages and the keyterms Yahoo! has associated with a page.

Delicious’s human generated data also lets you cut through spam and RSS consolidating sites that appear in normal search results.

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]]> http://www.bosshacks.com/delicious-data-with-yahoo-boss.html/feed 0 Build Your Own Search Engine presentation in London http://www.bosshacks.com/boss-presentation-london.html http://www.bosshacks.com/boss-presentation-london.html#comments Sat, 18 Apr 2009 10:15:38 +0000 Ted http://www.bosshacks.com/?p=4 Yahoo! BOSS

Find out how to use BOSS to build a search engine at the upcoming “YDN Tuesday: Build Your Own Search Service” presentation in London. The presentation will be on Tuesday June 2, 2009 at 6:30pm at the Skills Matter office in London. Sign up today at the Skills Matter web site.

This is a brief introduction:

Yahoo! BOSS, Build your Own Search Service, is an API that gives developers access to Yahoo’s search index. Unlike similar search API’s, BOSS gives you much more control over how you use the data. You can mash it with other sources, re-order the ranking, change the appearance, or do whatever it takes to make your site special.

Find out how to use BOSS to build sites, tools, and modules.
This presentation will cover the web service, data options, and show examples of how BOSS is used by various sites and tools.
Skills Matter -
Yahoo! Developer Network : Yahoo! BOSS, Build your Own Search Service

This is part of a monthly series of free lectures hosted by Yahoo! Developer Network and Skills Matter.

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