Yahoo Expands BOSS Developer Tools
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 […]
Matt McGee on April 9, 2009 at 12:00 pm | Reading time: 1 minute
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 range in days, weeks, or hours
Yahoo’s announcement has more information about all three tools, including a few code examples.
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