http://www.bosshacks.com Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:03:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.bosshacks.com/searchmonkey-data-in-boss.html Tour 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 ... http://www.bosshacks.com/tour-de-sound-music-search.html 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. Forget passing subdirectories: foo.com/bar is considered the same as foo.com. BOSS will differentiate between subdomains bar.foo.com is ... http://www.bosshacks.com/watch-that-request-length.html Middlespot has announced their latest project: Mashtabs. This is a browser-based workspace that lets you curate a collection of web sites, files, and snippets about any subject. It's a bit like Yahoo! Search Pad, but much more interactive. Here's a description by Middlespot: Have you ever wanted a blank workspace ... http://www.bosshacks.com/middlespot-boss-mash-tabs.html Yahoo's announcement about replacing their internal search functionality with Microsoft's Bing has created a lot of uncertainty. You can leave your questions for the BOSS team on this BOSS thread: Announcement: "Microsoft, Yahoo! Change Search Landscape". This will help keep track of concerns and prepare the answers for ... http://www.bosshacks.com/future-boss-bing-questions.html What color is happiness? What about the French Revolution, birth, and liberty? There's a new search based tool that can tell you these answers. How does it work? Here's some info from Instant Color Schemes: We take 5 related images from Yahoo Image Search and then show the most prominent 6 colors from ... http://www.bosshacks.com/color-scheme-generator.html 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 ... http://www.bosshacks.com/dynamic-sites-creation-boss.html Yahoo! BOSS and trainspottingView more OpenOffice presentations from 7mary4. 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 ... http://www.bosshacks.com/vertical-search-skillsmatter.html AltSearchEngines has a feature on the new search engine PopGist. PopGist improves the relevancy of the existing search engines and provides better user search experience. The prototype in popgist.com demonstrates the power of PopGist technology by utilizing the search feed provided by Yahoo BOSS. Comparing with the original Yahoo search results, ... http://www.bosshacks.com/popgist-search.html I kept notes on various presentations during the www2009 conference. Unfortunately, the are rather sparce, but I wanted to do something with them before I completely forgot the context. So here are the rough notes. Think of it as liveblogging but not really live. :) Socializing Big Data - Jeff Hammerbacher ... http://www.bosshacks.com/www2009-conference-notes.html