BOSS Hacks – an unofficial Yahoo! BOSS blog

I 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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