Yahoo! BOSS v2 Arrives

Pete Prestipino — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 15:03:00 GMT

This week Yahoo! launched version two of BOSS (a "build your own search service"), a data API that gives developers access to web search, image and news content for a usage fee. Version one of BOSS will be shut down this summer, scheduled for July 20, 2011.

The primary changes in version two are that web and image search results and now sourced from Microsoft's search engine, Yahoo branding attribution is now required (the first version allowed for white labeling), and arguably the most significant in that developers are now charged based on query volume.

The Yahoo! Search Boss v2 API Guide can be found here which includes information on using oAuth with the new API, syntax specification on querying the API and the formats, and syntax for calling ads from the platform.

Tiered Pricing for Yahoo Boss Search

Pete Prestipino — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 08:29:00 GMT

You might have noticed that Yahoo Boss made its way into the feature article for February in a sidebar on site search options. If you're unfamiliar with Boss, it enables developers to use Web results from Yahoo's main search index within their own apps.

But as you've probably come to understand, technology moves fast. Yahoo this week announced several changes to its Boss and Search Monkey services. The search service was previously free and will remain so for those generating fewer than 10,000 queries per day, but after that, Yahoo will use a pricing model known as tiered pricing or "buckets" using much the same model as phone and energy companies of old.

Yahoo will begin charging for the service in the second quarter of 2009. Learn about the new open monetization, pricing, structured data and more at the Yahoo! Search Blog or review the Website Magazine article on the many flavors of site search.

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Yahoo! BOSS v2 Arrives

Tiered Pricing for Yahoo Boss Search