BOSS Hacks - an unofficial Yahoo! BOSS blog » London http://www.bosshacks.com Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:03:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 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 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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