Comments on: CakePHP Site Search with Yahoo! BOSS

By: cHRISTIAN oNAH

cHRISTIAN oNAH — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 20:13:33 +0000

Pls, how can I use this for a full web search engine like google?
Thanks

By: Dan Moore

Dan Moore — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:43:03 +0000

Apparently there may be some YQL Boss support–unclear whether or not that is free.

http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2010/08/api_updates_and_changes.html

We’ll see what shakes out.

By: Neil Crookes

Neil Crookes — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:35:35 +0000

Shit yeah I tweeted it http://twitter.com/neilcrookes/status/21561557852 and meant to update the post, but completely forgot. Sorry dude. However, I reckon that they’ll only charge for high volumes of requests. I wish they’d confirm that though.

By: Dan Moore

Dan Moore — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:35:51 +0000

Hi Neil,

Whoops! I just followed your excellent instructions, but then discovered that BOSS would no longer be free: http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/17/yahoo-webmasters-search-tools-bing-2012/

Doh!

Dan

By: Neil Crookes » CakePHP Searchable Plugin

Neil Crookes » CakePHP Searchable Plugin — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:51:07 +0000

[...] and provided a single results set from multiple models/sources. Normally I’d use the CakePHP Yahoo BOSS site search I wrote and blogged about previously, but this particular app requires users to login to access [...]

By: Ma'moon Al-Akash

Ma'moon Al-Akash — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 09:31:23 +0000

Thank you very much, this will help us a lot and will save us a lot of time, effort, and resources in terms of implementation!
Thanks again neil!

By: Neil Crookes

Neil Crookes — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 22:12:03 +0000

Thanks for your comments everyone.

Yes, Yahoo needs to index your site first for this to work.

To use it to search the web, I think you can probably just leave the sites value blank. Check the Yahoo BOSS documentation for more information.

By: Bingeboy

Bingeboy — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 23:14:39 +0000

Does yahoo need to index your site for this to work? I have it working on all sites but my newest that isn’t being read on yahoo search either.

Thanks

By: Fahd

Fahd — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:52:28 +0000

If I wanted to use BOSS to search the web instead of my site, should I just leave the ‘sites’ value blank?

By: Nathan

Nathan — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:35:22 +0000

Thanks, this is excellent! Rarely does anything work so easily and with so little setup. The only issue I had was with a $startQuote / $endQuote being undefined but I just added those variables to the dataSource and all behaved just fine.

Thanks again, this saved a lot of time!