Yahoo: Other

Yahoo Expands BOSS Developer Tools

Apr 9, 2009 at 12:00pm ET by Matt McGee

Yahoo has added a few new tools to its BOSS platform that the company says will give developers more insight to their search results and help build unique search experiences. The new tools include: Integration with Delicious content - end-users can get Delicious saves, top tags, and count information within their search results Advanced language capabilities - developers can now filter specific language results for a given market. BOSS now supports Czech, Hungarian, and traditional Chinese New sorting functionality - BOSS News service can now sort by date and/or a specified time rang [...]

Filed in: Yahoo: APIs, Yahoo: Other

Yahoo - But Not Yahoo Search - Headed To TV

Mar 26, 2009 at 1:52pm ET by Matt McGee

Yahoo is making a move onto television screens with the Yahoo Widget Engine (YWE), but its first iteration won't include a Yahoo search box. The Yahoo widgets are Internet-based applications that can be used on Internet-connected TVs and controlled with the TV's remote control. Samsung has just introduced a TV that integrates the Yahoo Widget Engine; Sony, LG Electronics, and Vizio will soon launch TVs that support it, too. The Wall Street Journal reports that the initial version of YWE will be preloaded with widgets for Flickr, Yahoo News, Yahoo Weather, and Yahoo Finance. Additional w [...]

Filed in: Yahoo: Other, Yahoo: Search

Yahoo Closes The Cabin Door On FareChase

Mar 25, 2009 at 2:56pm ET by Matt McGee

FareChase, Yahoo's discount travel search engine, is shutting its doors today. An alert on the FareChase web site indicates that today is the service's final day, and encourages users to instead use Yahoo Travel. In her first conference call back in January, new CEO Carol Bartz said "everything's open for examination" when it comes to streamlining operations and improving the bottom line. Yahoo gave this statement to Search Engine Land: "After careful consideration, Yahoo! is discontinuing FareChase, a travel metasearch engine, effective March 25, 2009. After this date, users will no [...]

Filed in: Search Engines: Travel Search Engines, Yahoo: Other

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