2. Finding stuff
on the web
using Yahoo!
BOSS
by Yash Dayal
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lazurite/3486691753/

3. Yahoo! BOSS
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© Wikipedia

4. Yahoo! BOSS
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BUILD your
OWN
SEARCH
SERVICE

5. An API interface, like a gateway to
our search data stores
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/ianus/9033400968/

6. Build your own powerful
Search Applications
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7. Why do you need to know BOSS?
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8. BOSS allows you to
search
web, news
images and blogs
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9. You can even Monetize your
applications using Search Ads
from BOSS
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10. What can you customize?
Flexibility to Blend and Re-Rank Results
• Create your own look and feel
• Change Ranking
• Mix with other API’s
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13. How do I start hacking
with
Yahoo! BOSS ?
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14. BOSS uses oAuth based
authentication
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15. Get a free consumer key
and secret from
http://hackindiahyderabad.pbworks.com
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16. The easiest way to test
stuff out is to use the YQL
Console
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http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console

19. 1
2
Results
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21. http://www.flickr.com/photos/tales2astonish/7650259628/

23. select * from boss.search where q=”Iron Man" and
service="images" and ck="..." and secret="..."

24. select * from boss.search
where q=”Iron Man"
and service="news” and ck="..." and secret="..."

25. select * from boss.search where q=”Iron Man" and
sites="imdb.com, movies.yahoo.com" and ck="..."
and secret="..."

26. You can check spellings and get
suggestions
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27. Spell
Check
and
Correc/on
select * from boss.search
where q=”Irin Man” and service="spelling" and
ck="..." and secret="..."

28. CONTENT ANALYSIS
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa_goddard/5188180370/

30. select * from contentanalysis.analyze where
text="Yahoo! kicks off OpenHack at
Hyderabad"

31. Content Analysis from a URL
select * from contentanalysis.analyze where
url="http://www.cnn.com/"

32. QueryCheatsheet Find images of “Iron Man”
select * from boss.search where q=”Iron Man" and
service="images" and ck="..." and secret="..."
Find reviews of “Iron Man”
select * from boss.search where q="reviews in title: Iron
Man" and service="web" and ck="..." and secret="…"
Search for Iron Man but not the movie:
select * from boss.search where q=”Iron Man -movie" and
ck="..." and secret="... "
Search pdfs of “Iron Man”
select * from boss.search where q=”Iron Man" and
type="pdf" and ck="..." and secret="..."

33. QueryCheatsheet Find all the news of “Iron Man”
select * from boss.search where q="Iron Man" and
service="news" and ck="..." and secret="..."
Get long abstracts in the results
select * from boss.search where q="Iron Man" and
abstract="long" and ck="..." and secret="…"
Retrieve 51-100 results of the query
select * from boss.search where q="Iron Man" and
start=51 and ck="..." and secret="... "

34. ALMOST BREAK
TIME….

35. www.duckduckgo.com

37. More Resources
Yahoo! BOSS: http://developer.yahoo.com/boss/
BOSS Search Technical Documentation:
http://developer.yahoo.com/boss/search/boss_api_guide/
BOSS Geo Technical Documentation: http://developer.yahoo.com/boss/geo/
YQL: http://developer.yahoo.com/yql
oAuth: http://oauth.net/
Open Social: http://www.opensocial.org/
Open Data: http://theinfo.org
Alt Search Engines: http://www.altsearchengines.com/

38. Thanks!!
http://flickr.com/photos/42788859@N00/318947873/