I’m working on a new art search engine that features a large list of museums in the sites attribute. The url length is pushing the limits of the http char count, so I assumed my problems of spam sites infiltrating results was based on the string length.
A recent discussion on the BOSS users mailing list led me to discuss this with one of the BOSS engineers today and we discovered a more basic problem with my requests. I was sending extra commas in the string. Instead of this: moma.org,louvre.fr I had moma.org,,louvre.fr.
Sometimes you need to go back to basics to find your problems. Thanks to Mithun for helping me out.
I don’t know if this is the cause of Michael’s problems in the original mailing list request, but it is a good thing to remember.
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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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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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I am a BOSS user and promote it often. I keep searching for the same information, looking for new examples, and sharing ideas. This blog is a channel to do these things in a more permanent manner.
Disclosure: I work for Yahoo! but I’m not a member of the BOSS team. This blog does not represent Yahoo! or the BOSS product.
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