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 you.
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.
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 each image. Each column of colors is taken from a single image.
Instant Color Schemes
This is a fun example of using BOSS for more than a standard search application. You can easily take this idea and develop a module for blogs or other sites.
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 generating the “sites” argument, which tells BOSS to limit the results to a specified list of web sites, dynamically for each query. This allows each query to determine what sites are experts and then create a result set based on those experts.
I have built a prototype and will release it this week after I have a time to clean up some of the loose ends.
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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, the overlap in the top ten results between Google and Yahoo significantly increases by using PopGist search ranking algorithm for most of the queries tested.
PopGist improves the relevancy of major search engines – AltSearchEngines
PopGist uses BOSS, but reranks the results and adds threads of discussions to give you a more rounded result page.
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I gave a presentation at the recent www2009 conference in Madrid about the Future of Vertical Search Engines. It was a great event and I enjoyed watching researchers and developers from across the world informally discuss ideas and collaborations.
The Yahoo! Developer Network just published my blog post: The Future of Vertical Search Engines. The blog post includes much more information that is hard to describe in a simple set of PowerPoint slides.
I hope you find the information helpful. Join the conversation on the YDN blog.
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