The Yahoo Search Blog announced BOSS is switching, as expected, to a paid model.
BOSS which launched in July 2008 has become a favorite of many developers when building their own search engine off of Yahoo's data. With the organic Yahoo results being powered by Bing now, and the Microsoft deal closed, Yahoo has decided to switch BOSS to a pay per use model. Microsoft Bing will be powering some of these results, but not all.
They will charge on a cost-per-query model where the price will vary from $0.40 to $0.75 CPM (cost per 1000 BOSS queries). The price, as Yahoo explained, will de [...]
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