I hope Yahoo BOSS doesn’t go away
Thursday, July 30th, 2009I implemented Yahoo BOSS as the backstop search engine for Serendeputy a couple of months ago.
When you do a search, I first look to see if I have a match among the pre-compiled topics. If you do, I bring you directly there. If you don’t have a direct match, I do a call to Yahoo BOSS’s news search and show you those results.
But now, Microsoft is handling all the search for Yahoo. What does this mean for the future of BOSS? I hope they keep it up and running. Here is the current news.
UPDATE: It looks like Yahoo’s developers don’t know what’s happening with it either.
What specifically does it mean for BOSS? Honestly the team is still absorbing the implications and we just don’t know. We can tell you that BOSS will remain live for the time being. There are many aspects still to be considered. Over the next several days we’ll be working hard to get clarity and will update the community as soon as we can.
