Yahoo! Search BOSS V2: A Paid Service with Web, Images, and News

Some key points to note about the BOSS V2 platform:

BOSS will continue to be a RESTful API for web, image, and news search. Core web and image results will eventually be powered by the Microsoft search platform. In 2011, Yahoo! plans to expand upon these offerings.

BOSS plans to provide full flexibility to blend, stack, and re-rank results. You know your users best, so we will give you the ability to display exactly what they need. We also aim to continue enhancing the BOSS offering by providing additional vertical search services in the future.

We will require developers to access BOSS V2 via the Yahoo! Developer Network standard oAuth-based authentication.

BOSS V2 will provide a self-service payment model. We plan to offer developers the ability to add credit-card authentication at sign-up and to check usage, billing, and other information on a completely redesigned dashboard interface.

Yahoo! Search BOSS V2: A Paid Service with Web, Images, and News

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