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BOSS extends Yahoo!'s Open Strategy, said Raghavan, by giving access "to one of the most valuable assets on the Web, the Yahoo! Search infrastructure and technology."
"This builds on another recent launch of Yahoo!'s SearchMonkey developer platform, which opened up the Yahoo! search results page to allow site owners and developers to create enhanced search results," he noted.
Yaho!'s aim with BOSS is to provide developers and companies an unprecedented level of access to its algorithmic search infrastructure without incurring the significant costs required to build Web-scale search experiences.
By using the BOSS platform, partners will have the opportunity to provide industry leading search results. "BOSS allows for control over the presentation and ranking of Web search results as well as unlimited queries per day. Its framework allows developers to blend Yahoo! Search results from Web, news and image indexes with any data source from across the Web. Over time, other Yahoo! Search indexes will become available." the company said in a statement.
Over the next several months, a BOSS monetization capability, using Yahoo! search advertising and potentially other models, will be made available for partners and developers to create a search revenue stream for their business, the company said. The statement mentioned two aspects of the new offering:
Yahoo! Search BOSS is available from today as an API in beta.BOSS Web Services Platforms: API and Custom
BOSS will offer two options for companies and developers. Today, developers can begin using the BOSS API and the mash-up framework tools and see examples of how they could deploy BOSS on their sites by visiting the Yahoo! Developer Network site, http://developer.yahoo.com/boss. The self-service API allows developers to quickly get started in creating new Web search experiences.
The BOSS Custom service will be offered to select partners with large-scale needs in building and supporting Web search experiences.
BOSS University
Yahoo! has also partnered with top technology universities to drive search experimentation, innovation and research for search. Eminent researchers will now be able to conduct open research on search engines that was impossible in the academic environment. Yahoo! is currently working with the Carnegie Mellon University, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Purdue University, Stanford University, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMASS).
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