Some Mashups Harnessing The Power Of Yahoo’s BOSS
Jason Kincaid
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Yahoo’s Search Blog has posted a list of some of the most promising new web apps being built using its BOSS search platform. BOSS is a radically open API that launched last month that allows developers to utilize much of Yahoo’s core search data without the restrictions seen on most other search APIs.
4HourSearch - A week ago Yahoo VP of Platforms Sam Pullara released Yuil, a search engine that looked nearly exactly like recently launched (and overhyped) Cuil, but powered by Yahoo’s BOSS. The search engine actually managed to produce better results than Cuil by many accounts, but it was not to be - lawyers stepped in and Yuil was taken down only hours after it first went up. Pullara ripped the guts out of of Yuil and redid the layout to be less tempting to DMCA-hungry lawyers, leaving us with 4HourSearch (which was apparently created in 4 hours).
NewsLine - Dipity has combined BOSS with the Daylife news API to create NewsLine, an interactive timeline that places news events in chronilogical order. The result works surprisingly well, especially for current events. Earlier this year Dipity released TimeTube, a similar mashup that displays YouTube videos across a timeline. We covered TimeTube here.
You can find more mashups and details at the original blog post here
I heard boos twitter is possibly looking at utilizing some boss technology to create an outside web search… can anybody confirm this?
Corey
http://www.readtheanswer.com/index.php?RTA=web2
Thanks Jason, NewsLine was a fun project for us. We can’t say enough great things about DayLife/BOSS or the people there.
-BK
PS - Why no CrunchBase for Dipity :)?
Jason - That article also includes PlayerSearch.com which is the leading sports focused search engine built (in part) on top of Yahoo BOSS. It is great for searching for people participating in the Olympics which start tomorrow. Here is a search for Michael Phelps: http://www.playersearch.com/Se.....l%20Phelps
The site is also great for the 20 million Americans gearing up for fantasy football in a few weeks.
Try searching on C# in 4HourSearch. Maybe that 5th hour could have been used.
I spent 6 hours getting my BOSS site up and C# works. LMAO
http://bitcircle.com/search/web?search=C%23
Newsline was a straight winner for the daylife developer challenge
– Vineet at daylife
Amazing - to harness this power and control with little effort is really awesome on Y!s part.
cool stuff - now someone needs to create a place to find the best search engines for different topics.
Viewzi just launched a timeline view - similar to what Dipity is doing. You can check it out here: http://www.viewzi.com/search/cronotron/oboma
what about bossy q&a that was featured on tc 2 days back:
http://bossy.appspot.com/
it’s hilarious for 50 lines of code.
who’s stronger than jean claude van damme:
http://bossy.appspot.com/qa?qu.....+van+damme
who is president
http://bossy.appspot.com/qa?query=who+is+president
it’s so true …
Tried running a search using:
http://www.4hoursearch.com/search?q=global+trader
What struck me about the error on 4HourSearch is the reference to Google App Engine…?
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/base/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/ext/webapp/__init__.py”, line 499, in __call__
handler.get(*groups)
File “/base/data/home/apps/yoolsearch/1.232/search.py”, line 52, in get
template_values['image'] = image_response['resultset_images'][0]
KeyError: ‘resultset_images’
Thats really nice I’m looking forward to play with BOSS and to make some quick and powerful mashups.
Clearly we aren’t drinking enough Mountain Dew, it took us 8 hours to integrate our site with Yahoo BOSS!
Well, originally it took me 2-3 hours to get a demo site up with BOSS. But it was basic.
The C# test actually broke it.
Then about 2-3 hours later, I had C# test working along with picture search. All of this was done with PHP.
Now, I am switching over to Rails (please, no religious wars). BOSS is awesome. But sometimes, it does quit working! lol
cbmeeks
http://bitcircle.com