∞ Yahoo! Search BOSS V2: A Paid Service with Web, Images, and News
From the Yahoo! Search Blog :
The new BOSS V2 platform will initially offer a cost-per-query model. The cost will depend on the type of services used – web, image, news, etc. – and will likely vary from $0.40 to $0.75 CPM (cost per 1000 BOSS queries). Shortly after the BOSS V2 release, developers will also have the option to monetize their search experience through the combined marketplace resulting from the Yahoo! and Microsoft Search Alliance. In addition, we plan to offer a nominally-priced version of BOSS for academia and non-profit organizations (…)
- 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.
