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.
