In July, Yahoo! announced a new API service called Build Your Own Search Service (BOSS), allowing you to do just that. Yahoo! Search BOSS is:
a Web services platform that allows developers and companies to create and launch web-scale search products by utilizing the same infrastructure and technology that powers Yahoo! Search.
It allows companies of all sizes to develop a customized search service. According to Yahoo! Search Blog, BOSS offers:
- Ability to re-rank and blend results — BOSS partners can re-rank search results as they see fit and blend Yahoo!’s results with proprietary and other Web content in a single search experience
- Total flexibility on presentation — Freedom to present search results using any user interface paradigm, without Yahoo! branding or attribution requirements
- BOSS Mashup Framework — We’re releasing a Python library and UI templates that allow developers to easily mashup BOSS search results with other public data sources
- Web, news and image search — At launch, developers will have access to Web, news and image search and we’ll be adding more verticals soon
- Unlimited queries — There are no rate limits on the number of queries per day
Yahoo! says they are trying to make it easier for other companies to begin breaking into the search engine industry. They want to make it easier for people to search on the Internet, by having a variety of sources to choose from. They make the comparison to cable television and the extreme abundance of choices when it comes to channels today.
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