Slides of the talk on using BOSS and Content Analysis APIs for searching data on the Web given at the HackU event at IIT Bombay.

1. BOSS AROUND THE WEB
Jai Santhosh
YDN Engineer, Hacker
http://twitter.com/jaisanth
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sumrow/1267682594/sizes/l/

2. BOSS IS
BUILD YOUR OWN
SEARCH SERVICE
http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/

3. PROVIDES APIS
TO OUR SEARCH
DATA STORES

4. TO BUILD YOUR OWN
POWERFUL
SEARCH APPLICATIONS

5. BOSS allows you to
search over
Web, images,
news & Blogs

6. You can even monetize your
applications using Search Ads
from BOSS

7. What can be done on top of BOSS?
• Blend and re-rank search results
• Your own look and feel
• Mix it with other APIs

8. BOSS Pricing

9. Free for build your hacks!!

10. Where do I start?

11. BOSS uses OAuth for security

12. Get a FREE
consumer key and secret
http://hackyourworld.org/hacku/

18. Searching “The Dark Knight Rises”

20. Finding images of “The Dark Knight Rises”
select * from boss.search where q="The Dark
Knight Rises" and service="images" and
ck="..." and secret="..."

21. Finding “The Dark Knight Rises” in
IMDB, movies.yahoo.com
select * from boss.search where q="The Dark
Knight Rises" and
sites="imdb.com,movies.yahoo.com" and
ck="..." and secret="..."

22. Spell Check and Correction
select * from boss.search where q="The Dark
Knight Rises" and service="spelling" and
ck="..." and secret="..."

23. Finding news on “The Dark Knight Rises”
select * from boss.search where q="The Dark
Knight Rises" and service="news" and ck="..."
and secret="..."

24. Content Analysis
select * from contentanalysis.analyze where
text="Yahoo! kicks off HackU at IIT Bombay"

25. Content Analysis from a URL
select * from contentanalysis.analyze where
url="http://www.cnn.com/"

26. Lets See it in Action!

27. Query Cheatsheet
• Find images of “The Dark Knight Rises”
• select * from boss.search where q="The Dark Knight Rises" and
service="images" and ck="..." and secret="..."
• Find reviews of “The Dark Knight Rises”
• select * from boss.search where q="reviews intitle:The Dark Knight
Rises" and service="web" and ck="..." and secret="…"
• Search for Avatar but not the movie:
• select * from boss.search where q="Avatar -movie" and ck="..."
and secret="... "
• Search pdfs of “The Dark Knight Rises”
• select * from boss.search where q="The Dark Knight Rises" and
type="pdf" and ck="..." and secret="..."

28. Query Cheatsheet
• Find all the news of “The Dark Knight Rises”
• select * from boss.search where q="The Dark Knight Rises" and
service="news" and ck="..." and secret="..."
• Get long abstracts in the results
• select * from boss.search where q="The Dark Knight Rises" and
abstract="long" and ck="..." and secret="…"
• Retrieve 51-100 results of the query
• select * from boss.search where q="The Dark Knight Rises" and
start=51 and ck="..." and secret="... "

29. EXAMPLES

30. duckduckgo.com

34. More Resources
• Yahoo! BOSS: http://developer.yahoo.com/boss
• BOSS Technical Documentation:
http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/boss_api_guide
/
• YQL: http://developer.yahoo.com/yql
• Google App Engine: http: //appengine.google.com
• Amazon Web Services: http://aws.amazon.com
• oAuth: http://oauth.net/
• Open Social: http://www.opensocial.org/
• Open Data: http://theinfo.org
• Alt Search Engines: http://www.altsearchengines.com/

35. Questions??
http://www.flickr.com/photos/reem_unique/4119729692/

36. Thanks!!
• http://slideshare.net/jaisanth
• http://twitter.com/jaisanth
• https://github.com/jaisanth/