Introduction to Yahoo! Search & Content analysis APIs

4. http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/

8. • Flexibility
to
Blend
and
Re-­‐rank
Results
• Create
your
own
look
and
feel
• Mix
it
with
other
API’s
h>p://www.flickr.com/photos/balajijegan/6242907231/in/photostream

10. for
your
hacks

11. Where do I start?

12. http//www.flickr.com/photos/friarsbalsam/5736126308/sizes/o/in/photostream/.jpg

22. select * from boss.search where q="The Artist"
and service="images" and ck="…" and
secret="…"

23. select * from boss.search where q="The Artist"
and sites="imdb.com,movies.yahoo.com" and
ck="…" and secret="…"

24. • select * from boss.search where q="The Aartist"
and service="spelling" and ck="…" and
secret="…"

25. • select * from boss.search where q="The Artist"
and service="news" and ck="…" and
secret="…"

27. • select * from contentanalysis.analyze where
url="http://www.cnn.com/"

29. • Find images of “The Artist”
• Select * from boss.search where q="The Artist” and service
"images" and ck="…" and secret="…"
• Look for “The Artist” reviews:
• select * from boss.search where q="reviews intitle:The Artist"
and service="web" and ck="…" and secret="…”
• Search for Artist but not the movie:
• select * from boss.search where q="Artist -movie” and
ck="…" and secret="…”
• Search pdfs about “The Artist”:
• Select * from boss.search where q="The Artist” and
type="pdf"

30. • Find all news about “The Artist”
• select * from boss.search where q="The Artist" and
service="news" and ck="…" and secret="…"
• Get long abstracts in results
• select * from boss.search where q="The Artist" and
abstract="long" and ck="…" and secret="…"
• Retrieve 51-100 results for the query
• select * from boss.search where q="Artist” and start=51 and
ck="…" and secret="…"

37. Interceder

38. Hack:
h>p://www.inquisitorx.com/firefox/index_en.php
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39. Ø Yahoo! BOSS: http://developer.yahoo.com/boss
Ø BOSS Technical Documentation: http://developer.yahoo.com/
search/boss/boss_api_guide/
Ø YQL: http://developer.yahoo.com/yql
Ø Google App Engine: http: //appengine.google.com
Ø Amazon Web Services: http://aws.amazon.com
Ø oAuth: http://oauth.net/
Ø Open Social: http://www.opensocial.org/
Ø Open Data: http://theinfo.org
Ø Alt Search Engines: http://www.altsearchengines.com/

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finding-things-with-boss

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