Yahoo! Search BOSS

Another cool technology courtesy of ER: Yahoo! Search BOSS™
“BOSS (Build your Own Search Service) is Yahoo!'s open search web services platform. The goal of BOSS is simple: to foster innovation in the search industry. Developers, start-ups, and large Internet companies can use BOSS to build and launch web-scale search products that utilize the entire Yahoo! Search index. BOSS gives you access to Yahoo!'s investments in crawling and indexing, ranking and relevancy algorithms, and powerful infrastructure. By combining your unique assets and ideas with our search technology assets, BOSS is a platform for the next generation of search innovation, serving hundreds of millions of users across the Web.”

Examples
hakia - a leading semantic search engine, uses Yahoo! Search BOSS to accelerate its semantic
analysis of the Web by accessing the Yahoo! index's vast amounts of web documents.
Me.dium Search - Me.dium combined the BOSS API with its insight into the real time surfing activity of the crowds
to build a unique "Crowd-Powered" social search engine prototype.

Daylife - Daylife To-Go is a new self-service, hosted publishing platform from Daylife. Anyone can use this
platform to automatically generate 100% customizable pages and widgets. Daylife To-Go uses
the BOSS API platform to power its Web search module.

Cluuz - Cluuz generates easier to understand search results through patent pending semantic cluster
graphs, image extraction, and tag clouds. The Cluuz analysis is performed in real-time on
results returned from BOSS API.