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Jana Herwig

Unlimited Queries with Yahoo! Search BOSS

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While Microsoft got all the attention for its agreemant to purchase Powerset, Yahoo! launched its Search BOSS program. BOSS stands for Build your Own Search Service, and it allows owners of search engines to integrate and use Yahoo! search content to accelerate their searches. This is of interest in particular to alternative, niche market search engines and these are indeed in the focus of BOSS: “Niche search engines often aren’t very good because they have access to a very limited index of content,” said Senior Director of the Open Search Platform, Bill Michels, in response to ReadWriteWeb, “It’s expensive to index the whole web.” Semantic search engine Hakia is already using Yahoo!’s index, Cluuz also appears on their list of sample mashups.

Here is an overview of BOSS’ service portfolio in comparison to the Yahoo! Developer Network.

What’s further interesting about their business model is the revenue sharing proposal:

In the near future, we will launch a monetization platform enabling Yahoo! and partners to jointly participate in the economics of BOSS-powered search products. Either Yahoo! sponsored search integration, with certain implementation and exclusivity requirements, or potentially a payment model, will be required above a specified query threshold.

Check out Yahoo! Search Boss!

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Jana Herwig

An overview of Semantic Search engines

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Not a fortnight seems to go by these days without the announcement of another new Semantic Search engine – hence I though I sit down and draw up my own little list of currently available search engines. The amount of semantics in them isn’t always transparent – hardly any of these search engine providers wants to disclose the ingredients in their recipe. I’ve also included a few search engines or search engine type applications that rely on collective or social intelligence to improve their search results.

If you have heard of any other semantic search engines that are not yet on the list, please leave a comment. They appear in alphabetical order, i.e. in no particular order. The information contained in ‘Notes’ is not intended as an independent evaluation. You might also want to check out the Top 100 list of alternative search engines on ReadWriteWeb – even though a number of search engines – sadly, are no longer online since the article was published in January 2007… Continue reading →