- Yahoo! Search BOSS
Yahoo! Search BOSS (Build your Own Search Service) is a Yahoo! Developer Network initiative to provide an open search web services platform. [ [http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ysearchboss/ Yahoo! Search BOSS YDN Page] ] .
The main goal and idea of BOSS is to give users, in this case developer's free access to the Yahoo! Search
index . The results can be supplied into the developer's website or program so that they can manipulate the resources according to their product's requirements. BOSS allows the results to be returned back in XML, HTML, text and also allows the comprehensive search feature allowed in Yahoo like pulling the results by pages, searching inside PDF, etc. The ranking of the websites for a search term is same as theYahoo! Search ranking since both of these are pulling from the same index and same ranking.Goal
According to the site, The goal of BOSS to "foster innovation in the search industry" [ [http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ysearchboss/ Yahoo! Search BOSS YDN Page] ] .
References
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.