Yahoo BOSS Goes Commercial + SearchMonkey – Get Started Now – PHP/JS/Ruby API Wrappers and Tutorials!
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In an indepth preview and announcement by Yahoo, we see a big move in the tiered pay/free API ecosystem. No doubt fueled by the current economic climate and the fight for Yahoo to make a comeback, Yahoo’s BOSS (Build Your Own Search Service) will go paid in Q2 of this year.
Not all is lost, there are open pricing schemes and from what I can see up to 10k requests a day will still be free, so – you can still get your Kiva.org search engine going for free, but if it actually works out, you’re going to need to pay for it.
There is even more good news,
I swear I heard about this earlier this week (very shortly after the Kiva announcement) but I can’t find the post, but anyway… Yahoo will offer SearchMonkey integration into BOSS! This is very cool, and my mind has been flying through ideas since this annoucement. SearchMonkey is basically a service for “enhancing” yahoo search results with additional metadata. Ex. a search for a movie showing showtimes and rottentomatoe links right in the search!
Now that you’ve herd all about news with these API Services from Yahoo lets throw down some factsheets, explanations, api classes, and tutorials to help out some of the non-know’rs after the turn.
What is Yahoo BOSS
“BOSS (Build your Own Search Service) is Yahoo!’s open search web services platform. The goal of BOSS is simple: to foster innovation in the search industry. Developers, start-ups, and large Internet companies can use BOSS to build and launch web-scale search products that utilize the entire Yahoo! Search index. BOSS gives you access to Yahoo!’s investments in crawling and indexing, ranking and relevancy algorithms, and powerful infrastructure.”
basically, you can build your own search engine using yahoo’s resources
Yahoo BOSS Factsheet
- Also Known As: Yahoo Build Your Own Search Service
- What is it: Yahoo has offered for awhile now the ability for users to create their own search engines, giving the ability to tap into the Yahoo Index’ed pages based on your own Keyword search.
- API Home: http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss
- API Signup: developer.yahoo.com/wsregapp/
- API Requirements: YahooID
- Pricing: First 10k Requests Free, Tiered pricing based on search category + peek hours etc. This is new with the annoucement preferenced at the top of the page. With each unit costing 10 cents, we can see the pricing chart below taken from the Yahoo BOSS Pricing page
read full coverage here on Yahoo BOSS announcement here, or grab php,ruby,js wrappers and tutorials below!
Yahoo BOSS Programming Wrappers, Tutorials, Resources and Links!
- Creating a Niche Search Engine Walkthrough – a high level walkthrough of how you can create a niche search services based on Yahoo BOSS. Great place for beginers @ developer.yahoo.net/blog
- Zend Framework Yahoo Search Class/PHP Wrapper – for your zendframework junkies out there, here is the Yahoo Search Service Class (which looks like it supports tons of the APIs request types available @ zendframework.com/manual
- PHPBoss – PHP Yahoo BOSS Library/Wrapper - an independently created Yahoo BOSS wrapper originally developed for a wordpress blog @ shout.setfive.com
- PHP Yahoo Boss Class – a nice php class for integrating Yahoo BOSS into PHP, its probably high quality given the source @ phpclasses.org
- Yahoo BOSS + PHP Tutorial – the official tutorial from yahoo on using Yahoo BOSS and PHP @ yahoo.com
- Simple PHP Tutorial using Curl + Yahoo BOSS – a small but concise tutorial designed as a starting point for PHP developers @ labnol.org
- Another PHP Tutorial + Yahoo BOSS – a nice tutorial and walkthrough of using the Yahoo BOSS API in php @ http://willarson.com
- PHP Yahoo BOSS Keywords Extractor (bossterms) – seeems like a straight-forward PHP Wrapper for accessing the Yahoo BOSS API and returning keywords extracted from search results. It uses the “undocumented”
view=keytermsoption. Includes some examples and a little tutorial @ wait-till-i.com - Javascript Yahoo BOSS API Keywords Extractor (bossterms) – this is the other leg of the bossterms library (which is listed as php above), which allows javascript access to the api for keyword extraction @ wait-till-i.com
- Javascript Yahoo BOSS Tutorial – a great walkthrough on using javascript to build results from the Yahoo Boss API @ http://24ways.org
- Ruby API Wrapper (Bossman) + Yahoo BOSS Tutorial – it seems like a small tutorial, but thats jus the nature of elegent code, get Yahoo BOSS working under ruby @ rubyinside.com
- Ruby API Wrapper aka Bossman Gem Repository – seems like a popular gem for integrating Yahoo BOSS into your site with ruby @ github.com
What is Yahoo Search Monkey?
Originally developed as an add-on to the yahoo.com search results, SearchMonkey is now available to BOSS! Which means that you can create a SearchMonkey and then use it on your own site and offer it to the public doing searches on yahoo.com. A play on “GreaseMonkey” (which is designed to rock your work by offering javascript plugins for your browser, I reccomend it heavily! userscripts.org), SearchMonkey writes plugins for your Yahoo Search.
“Using SearchMonkey, developers and site owners can use structured data to make Yahoo! Search results more useful and visually appealing, and drive more relevant traffic to their sites.
How does it work?
The SearchMonkey developer tool helps you find and construct data services that you can use to build apps. Once you’ve built your app, you can use it yourself and share it with others.”
Yahoo Search Monkey Factsheet
- What: enhance search results with additional information, links, visual aids, etc.
- Where: developer.yahoo.com/searchmonkey
- Signup: developer.search.yahoo.com/wizard/index
- Pricing: still free for all
Yahoo SearchMonkey Tutorials, Resources, Links
- Yahoo SearchMonkey Application Gallery – browse what people have already created to enhance your search results @ gallery.search.yahoo.com
- Yahoo’s SearchMonkey Guide – A guide for developers and more for navigating with your SearchMonnkey @ developer.yahoo.com
- PHP Function Reference – SearchMonkey Plugin – a cool searchmonkey plugin that shows php function details w/out browsing to the page @ gallery.search.yahoo.com
- SEOmoz Example and Walkthrough – posted by a SEOmoz viewer it walks you through the creation in a tutorial style format and explains some great points along the way.
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