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Watch that Request Length

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Ted
on December 15, 2009
in BOSS Functionality, Sites attribute, Tips and Tricks and Troubleshooting
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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.
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PopGist adds discussions to search

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Ted
on May 19, 2009
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PopGist search engine
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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