Comments on: Yahoo BOSS Used To Create Powerset For Images and More

By: paavan s.

paavan s. — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 06:06:43 +0000

Really unique application of askboss.com – specially i like search result of your images – very relevant. i have seen my photos with the search of “seo india”

congratulation to team.

By: Saurabh Sahni » Natural Language Image Search with Yahoo Boss and Google App Engine

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 06:47:48 +0000

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By: Sally

Sally — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:44:54 +0000

Great Picks. I really like Buildasearch.com what an innovative concept. Cool guys! Keep on innovating…

By: George

George — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:23:18 +0000

You’ve linked 4HourSearch to TechCrunch.com.

Good read though.

By: debajyoti

debajyoti — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:30:57 +0000

all three sites are good. Gr8 job done yahoo!!!

By: lukas zinnagl

lukas zinnagl — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:17:17 +0000

hey guys,

glad you featured our site here and that you like the app. I just wanted to let you know that we recently also developed a plug-in for Firefox’ Ubiquity, which enables to search for people straight while typing “people search + name”

here is a video of how it works: http://vimeo.com/1621539

all the best
lukas

123people.com team

By: vibhu

vibhu — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 09:48:04 +0000

I feel Yahoo! have a lot more things in their bag for BOSS. They can lend their infrastructure to the startups by keeping their proprietary content with search access to them them only.
More they can do is categorize their results so as to build vertical search engine over their indexes. A small mashup coping the 4hoursearch ui. http://prism.appspot.com

By: Saurabh Sahni

Saurabh Sahni — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 09:08:18 +0000

askBOSS is just a basic prototype, built in few hours using the powerful Yahoo BOSS APIs and mashup framework. Results cannot be accurate always, but in most of the cases, they are better than regular image search results.

By: bossyhorns

bossyhorns — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 05:37:13 +0000

What about bossyhorns? – an iphone optimized ysearch.http://bossyhorns.appspot.com

By: John

John — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 05:21:24 +0000

That is a feature of WebKit. Safari users have been blessed with for ages.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 02:42:56 +0000

Search for “Who is Stupid?” in powerset for images

By: LAme DuCK

LAme DuCK — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:40:01 +0000

@WTF – I think the world would be a better place without your retarded comments. Have u ever written 10 lines of code? seriously. So shut the fuck up and get ur ass back to ur work.

By: Gebadia Smith

Gebadia Smith — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:38:01 +0000

Before you attack TC why don’t you work on your homepage. You have all this space and you use such a small search box and small text. Ever considered the fact that not everyone likes squinting.

By: Gebadia Smith

Gebadia Smith — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:34:16 +0000

So that is a Chrome feature which lets you pull the comment box bigger. Huh, that is cool.

People don’t read TC because of the layout. They read it because it is useful to keep tabs on the cool stuff out there. Maybe I am in the dark ages but I often read about something in TC and get ideas from it. I would never of considered using Boss without TC.

Content matters more than layout.

By: cuiler2

cuiler2 — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:31:11 +0000

@DoesWhat – I agree, this is an excellent idea. I am also a Cuil employee, a Project Manager to be exact and have been thinking about this since our beta period. I’ll see if we can get a copy of the Yuil source code and go from there.

@cuiler – Agreed. Let’s bring it up with Tom, Anna and the engineering team during tomorrow’s planning meeting. I think we’ll get promoted for this.

@Wowa – I am certainly reading TC much less, I hate the new design. It makes the site look dead and boring for some reason. I wonder if the unique visit stats for TC are down in any way to encourage them to bring the old design back, or something similar.

By: Wowa

Wowa — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:56:46 +0000

Anyone else reading techcrunch less after the new design? Just curious if I am the only one.

By: SebastianH

SebastianH — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:46:41 +0000

Boss is seriously groundbreaking…

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Filmes porno gratis — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:42:46 +0000

Thats cool but i think google have something similar called google images “face” im not sure.

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By: Fabian Schonholz

Fabian Schonholz — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:37:43 +0000

askBOSS kind of sucks … I tried 5 queries and all did not return anything close to an answer:

Who was the first president of Israel?
Who was the first president of Argentina?
Who is Diego Maradona?
Who was David Ben-Gurion?
Who is the most pretty?

Ok ok … the last one provided some good laughs.

By: Gebadia Smith

Gebadia Smith — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:35:19 +0000

Maybe Yahoo needs to create a Yfund like FBfund instead of creating these sites that fail like their venture into social sites. They have great tools and by embracing developers, maybe they make themselves relevant enough where even Mikey A gives them props.

By: mark sabba

mark sabba — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:13:36 +0000

Yahoo’s developer support for BOSS has been excellent. Quick responses to posted questions especially by Vik Singh and dmontal2. Very encouraging to build on this platform. Great job Yahoo.

By: Gebadia Smith

Gebadia Smith — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:03:00 +0000

I sent it to this one. bosscustom@yahoo-inc.com Maybe I was lucky in who I reached. It sucks when you can’t ask questions about issues that are private. A big reason I am building me app in Facebook is because unlike open social I was able to get private help. A simple email by facebook was a reason for me investing my money in that platform. Often a 10 minute email can lead to a client for life. With API’s this is so important because the best apps are going to push your services in directions you never imagined. These companies should do everything they can to help people succeed. At the most basic level from the companies perspective, it is still cheaper to provide good help than it is to develop a lot of the apps themselves.