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

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/bijoymohan/426578345/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/eirikref/2301400023/

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/bijoymohan/426578345/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/eirikref/2301400023/

4. Yahoo! BOSS
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© Wikipedia

5. Yahoo! BOSS
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BUILD your
OWN
SEARCH
SERVICE

6. An API interface, like a gateway to our
search data stores
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7. Build your own powerful
Search Applications
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8. Why do you need to know BOSS?
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9. BOSS allows you to search
web, news
images and blogs
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10. You can even Monetize your
applications using Search Ads
from BOSS
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11. What can you customize?
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Flexibility to Blend and Re-Rank Results
• Create your own look and feel
• Change Ranking
• Mix with other API’s

12. All good things come at a cost…
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14. How do I start hacking
with
Yahoo! BOSS ?
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15. BOSS uses oAuth based
authentication
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16. Get a free consumer key
and secret from
http://www.hackyourworld.org
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17. Ok!.. Now what?

18. The easiest way to test stuff
out is to use the YQL
Console
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http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console

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

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

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

29. You can check spellings and get
suggestions
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30. Spell Check and Correction
select * from boss.search
where q=”Irin Man” and service="spelling" and
ck="..." and secret="..."

31. Content Analysis
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa_goddard/51

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

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

35. Query
Cheatsheet
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="..."

36. 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="... "
Query
Cheatsheet

37. Hurray!!
Almost the end…

38. www.duckduckgo.com

40. 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/

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