3. BOSS = B uild your O wn S earch S ervice Open Yahoo’s core search features via web services to let 3rd parties revolutionize Search Unrestricted What
9. Python (v2.5+) library BOSS Search SDK plus … SQL for remixing arbitrary XML/JSON sources Loosely Functional programming paradigm BOSS Mashup Framework
10. select, group, sort, union, inner/outer/cross joins, udfs, where Text normalization and duplicate removal Auto-transformation of resource-oriented API results into tables w/o parsing All-in-memory storage and retrieval operations Ability to join lists of tables via an arbitrary predicate function (map-like) Search UI template framework Single search function provides total access to BOSS REST API BMF Features
11. Ported enhanced version of BMF to GAE platform http://zooie.wordpress.com/2008/08/04/yahoo-boss-google-app-engine-integrated/ Easiest way to deploy a BOSS application online BMF + Google App Engine
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14. So, what do you think? Q&A Docs, App ID, dev group, more info: http://developer.yahoo.com/boss Feedback