Yahoo provides enhancements for BOSS
The popularity of Delicious has let to several tools from Yahoo and the Delicious community browser such as add-ons, APIs, and Search Monkey applications.The Delicious data which is available today through BOSS includes Delicious saves, top tags including count information.BOSS has included the Advanced Language functionality to enable filtering of specific language results for a given market.Yahoo BOSS presently supports Czech, Hungarian, and traditional Chinese.BOSS News Service can now be sorted by a date or a specified time range of days, weeks, or hours.
Yahoo Search BOSS, for Build Your Own Search Service, is a new Web services platform that enables Web developers access to Yahoo’s search technology. Precisely,it’s opening up access,initially in the form of so-called application programming interfaces and in future through custom services from Yahoo and other partners to its Web, news, and image indexes.The goal of BOSS is to nurture innovation in the search industry.BOSS allows access to Yahoo!’s investments in crawling and indexing, ranking and relevancy algorithms including powerful infrastructure.
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