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What are BOSS Custom's capabilities?



• Near real-time indexing of public or proprietary content
• Blending training datasets to produce advanced, customized ranking models that scale to the Web
• Federating web and proprietary content in a single search display
• Integrating query suggestions (Search Assist technology)
• Leveraging highly trained query and document categorizers
• Structured search (range queries, refinement)
• And much, much more

BOSS Custom implementations are aimed at established consumer web companies with unique assets (e.g., user data, novel technology) that would be able to develop high-scale search products.

If your company does not fit this description, please consider the BOSS API.

• Search Assist saves you time by completing your queries before you’ve finished typing them
• All your favorite SearchMonkey modules will follow you from your desktop browser to your iPhone (just make sure you’re logged into your Yahoo! account on your iPhone)
• Movie showtimes, weather, local results, breaking news, Flickr photos, and other useful Yahoo! Search shortcuts are now at your fingertips
• Other helpful features like Quick Links, same-host indent, and more

“We think that for a good percentage of searches, we’ll get people to where they want to go a lot faster than regular search engines,” Mr. Musk said. He said it would have been impossible for Me.dium to create a search service on its own.

Yahoo estimates that it would cost $300 million to build a search service from scratch.