What Site Owners, Web Developers & SEOs Should Know About The Yahoo Microsoft Deal
Jul 30, 2009 at 1:45pm ET by Vanessa Fox
By now, everyone has read all about the news that Yahoo is replacing its search index with Microsoft's Bing. In a way, it's a great story of complete reversal, as in 2002, Microsoft didn't have its own index and instead used Inktomi. Late that year, Yahoo! acquired Inktomi, which spurred Microsoft to start building its own search index to avoid having a search supplier owned by a major competitor. Now Yahoo is ditching its index (including all of the technology it acquired with Inktomi) to use the very index it motivated Microsoft to build.
We've read about what this means for advertisers ( [...]
Filed in: Microsoft & Yahoo Search Deal, Microsoft: Bing, SEO - Search Engine Optimization, Top News, Yahoo: APIs, Yahoo: Search Monkey, Yahoo: Site Explorer
Yahoo Launches Placemaker, Adding “Whereness” To Unstructured Internet Data
May 20, 2009 at 2:56pm ET by Greg Sterling
Yesterday Yahoo spoke about taking search much more into the real world by turning "web pages" into "web objects." Today there were a couple of announcements at the Where 2.0 conference related to identifying unstructured data online and linking it according to places and locations -- in other words made geo-relevant.
Tyler Bell of Yahoo gave the talk at Where about a "geo-enriched location-aware internet." Where is a very developer-focused event. Bell's talk was essentially about building the location "infrastructure" that will help support the vision articulated at the Yahoo Search event [...]
Filed in: Yahoo: APIs, Yahoo: Maps & Local, Yahoo: Search
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! BOSS Expands Feature Set; Adds Usage Fees
Feb 11, 2009 at 12:49pm ET by Vanessa Fox
Today, Yahoo! has announced several new features to their Build Your Own Search Service (BOSS) platform as well as usage fees. When BOSS launched in July 2008, the stated goal was to spur innovation and disrupt the search market. Will the additional of usage fees hinder that goal and become a barrier to entry for the cost-limited startups Yahoo! was originally trying to help? Yahoo says no, that they "believe that introducing the proposed pricing structure will improve the ecosystem by optimizing capacity for our serious developers."
Fee structure
The BOSS charges kick in only once queri [...]
Filed in: Top News, Yahoo: APIs, Yahoo: Search Monkey
Why Don’t Google & Yahoo Offer Twitter Search?
Jan 16, 2009 at 2:26pm ET by Danny Sullivan
Yesterday, we got a new news search engine which taps into Twitter that Yahoo's excited about, as it uses their BOSS system. That kind of annoyed me. Why didn't Yahoo just build the service themselves? Or a regular Twitter search service, for that matter? And where's Twitter search from Google?
BOSS is Yahoo's Build Your Own Search Service product, which lets anyone take Yahoo's data and create their own search engine. It's grown into part of Yahoo's "open strategy" where it hopes to make gains on the web by supposedly pulling in data from everywhere as well as being open to others [...]
Filed in: Search Engines: Word Of Mouth & Buzz Search Engines, Top News, Yahoo: APIs
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