Comments on: Yahoo seeks ad revenue by fueling others' search innovation

A program called BOSS lets others build research projects and businesses on Yahoo search results. Then comes phase two: make money by selling more search ads.

[Codonology]

I think BOSS will help Codonology Project from Type-1 Study to Type-3 Study. Eventually, the true power of direct understanding exchange system will be demonstrated, although may be, ironically, through IT business community first.
A codonologist.
(www.Codonology.com)

[lonestarState]

The boss initiative seems really cool! I think the energy saving search engine www.earthoid.com may have been using Yahoo! Boss technology for a while. Will to make my own boss search engine!

[benjaminstraight]

Wow...

[jamalystic]

What message is yahoo trying to send with this BOSS initiative?Is it to make itself more lucrative for a microsoft Bid or simply to tell Icahn that there is still life in it?Yahoo Searches for Enterprise Strategy( http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=625&doc_id=158648&F_src=flftwo)

[JCPayne]

Finally Yahoo is going back to their roots in embracing the Open Source community. After cozying up with Microsoft for a while (in allowing Microsoft users access to Yahoo IM) they see what that got them..... Serves 'em right too.

[limefan913]

THIS is why Yahoo! must stay independent. They can still innovate, they can still come up with brilliant ideas. Complete freedom (or close to it) to do what they will with search results? That's ingenious to say the least. I can't wait to see what else comes of Yahoo's ongoing revival. If they keep this up I'll have to really consider switching some over my services over to Yahoo.

[flickrz]

This is great for start-ups who don't necessarily have enough money to compete in search arena. I'd love to see it giving some real boost to innovation on the internet.

[randyadams]

The example shown above is searchme.com, NOT Yahoo Boss. We have our own search engine and DO NOT USE BOSS. They simply took a screen shot of our engine and removed our logo. Nice guys! You cannot do this kind of search with Yahoo BOSS, because they don't have the images - we have 2000 terabytes of web page images. Check searchme.com out for yourselves and see if you see ANY resemblance... http://www.searchme.com/#/20/&pi=2/&stack=1f485/

Randy Adams
CEO
Searchme.com

[angus_p]

and for those interested in this we wrote a little RubyGem called Rboss which wraps around the BOSS webservice. It makes life nice and easy using Ruby and BOSS.

more here http://blog.eshopworks.co.uk/?p=12

Checkout the Rboss documentation and example usage at: http://github.com/eshopworks/rboss-gem

everything available under the MIT license so feel free to take, use, contribute and distribute

angus