BOSS Hacks - an unofficial Yahoo! BOSS blog » request http://www.bosshacks.com Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:03:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Watch that Request Length http://www.bosshacks.com/watch-that-request-length.html http://www.bosshacks.com/watch-that-request-length.html#comments Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:37:12 +0000 Ted http://www.bosshacks.com/?p=163 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.

  1. Forget passing subdirectories: foo.com/bar is considered the same as foo.com. BOSS will differentiate between subdomains bar.foo.com is not the same as foo.com. In a real-world example passing finance.yahoo.com/news will be interpreted as finance.yahoo.com. But finance.yahoo.com will give a different result than sports.yahoo.com.
  2. Remove www from the url. This is just wasting space. There may be an exception when the site was not setup to work without the www subdomain. I doubt this would make an impact.
Related articles by Zemanta
]]> http://www.bosshacks.com/watch-that-request-length.html/feed 0