Saurabh Sahni YDN Developer, Hacker, Evangelist

BOSS AROUND THE WEB

Jai SanthoshYDN Engineer, Hacker

http://twitter.com/jaisanthhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/sumrow/1267682594/sizes/l/

BOSS IS BUILD YOUR OWN SEARCH SERVICE

http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/

PROVIDES APIS

TO OUR SEARCHDATA STORES

TO BUILD YOUR OWNPOWERFUL

SEARCH APPLICATIONS

BOSS allows you to search over

Web, images, news & Blogs

You can even monetize yourapplications using Search Ads

from BOSS

What can be done on top of BOSS?• Blend and re-rank search results

• Your own look and feel

• Mix it with other APIs

BOSS Pricing

Free for build your hacks!!

Where do I start?

BOSS uses OAuth for security

Get a FREE consumer key and secret

http://hackyourworld.org/hacku/

Searching “The Dark Knight Rises”

Finding images of “The Dark Knight Rises”

select * from boss.search where q="The Dark Knight Rises" and service="images" and

ck="..." and secret="..."

Finding “The Dark Knight Rises” in IMDB, movies.yahoo.com

select * from boss.search where q="The Dark Knight Rises" and

sites="imdb.com,movies.yahoo.com" and ck="..." and secret="..."

Spell Check and Correction

select * from boss.search where q="The Dark Knight Rises" and service="spelling" and

ck="..." and secret="..."

Finding news on “The Dark Knight Rises”

select * from boss.search where q="The Dark Knight Rises" and service="news" and ck="..."

and secret="..."

Content Analysis

select * from contentanalysis.analyze where text="Yahoo! kicks off HackU at IIT Bombay"

Content Analysis from a URL

select * from contentanalysis.analyze where url="http://www.cnn.com/"

Lets See it in Action!

Query Cheatsheet• Find images of “The Dark Knight Rises”• select * from boss.search where q="The Dark Knight Rises" and

service="images" and ck="..." and secret="..."

• Find reviews of “The Dark Knight Rises”• select * from boss.search where q="reviews intitle:The Dark Knight

Rises" and service="web" and ck="..." and secret="…"

• Search for Avatar but not the movie: • select * from boss.search where q="Avatar -movie" and ck="..."

and secret="... "

• Search pdfs of “The Dark Knight Rises”• select * from boss.search where q="The Dark Knight Rises" and

type="pdf" and ck="..." and secret="..."

Query Cheatsheet• Find all the news of “The Dark Knight Rises”• select * from boss.search where q="The Dark Knight Rises" and

service="news" and ck="..." and secret="..."

• Get long abstracts in the results• select * from boss.search where q="The Dark Knight Rises" and

abstract="long" and ck="..." and secret="…"

• Retrieve 51-100 results of the query• select * from boss.search where q="The Dark Knight Rises" and

start=51 and ck="..." and secret="... "

EXAMPLES

duckduckgo.com

More Resources• Yahoo! BOSS: http://developer.yahoo.com/boss • BOSS Technical Documentation:

http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/boss_api_guide/

• YQL: http://developer.yahoo.com/yql • Google App Engine: http: //appengine.google.com • Amazon Web Services: http://aws.amazon.com • oAuth: http://oauth.net/ • Open Social: http://www.opensocial.org/ • Open Data: http://theinfo.org • Alt Search Engines: http://www.altsearchengines.com/

Questions??http://www.flickr.com/photos/reem_unique/4119729692/

• http://slideshare.net/jaisanth

• http://twitter.com/jaisanth

• https://github.com/jaisanth/

Thanks!!