After presenting our Liquid Query paper at WWW 2010, we took some time to analyze the overall scientific and technical program, spotting some papers that relates a lot to some of the research problems addressed by SeCo.
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Yahoo! Search BOSS (Build your Own Search Service) is a Yahoo! Developer Network initiative to provide an open search web services platform.
The main goal and idea of BOSS is to give users, in this case developer’s free access to the Yahoo! Search index. The results can be supplied into the developer’s website or program so that they can manipulate the resources according to their product’s requirements. BOSS allows the results to be returned back in XML, JSON, HTML, text and also allows the comprehensive search feature allowed in Yahoo like pulling the results by pages, searching inside PDF, etc. The ranking of the websites for a search term is same as the Yahoo! Search ranking since both of these are pulling from the same index and same ranking.
[Source Wikipedia]
[Website http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/]
SearchMonkey allows developers and site owners for making Yahoo! Search results more useful and visually appealing, and drive more relevant traffic to their sites.
- Technology analysis
- Site owners are invited to make structured data available as Microformats, RSS, RDF or any data feed
- Developers are invited to program SearchMonkey application that uses the structured data made available by site owners in making results more useful and visually appealing Final users are invited to add SearchMonkey applications to their Search Gallery in order to get more useful and visually appealing results
- Business model analysis
- site owners can gain more traffic for their sites, thus more visibility of their contents and selling advertisement spaces to a higher price.
- developers can gain by offering consultancy services
- Yahoo! gains in terms of traffic (thus higher price for sponsored links) more useful and visually appealing results
[Website http://developer.yahoo.com/searchmonkey/]
Yahoo! Answers is a community-driven knowledge market website launched by Yahoo! on December 13, 2005 that allows users to both submit questions to be answered and answer questions asked by other users. The site gives members the chance to earn points as a way to encourage participation and is based on Naver’s Knowledge iN. As of December 2006, it had 60 million users and 65 million answers. On June 11, 2007, Yahoo!’s former questions and answers service, Ask Yahoo!, was formally merged with Yahoo! Answers. Yahoo! Answers has become the second most popular Internet reference site after Wikipedia, according to Comscore.
[Source Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo_answers]
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