Comments on: Search War: Yahoo! Opens Its Search Engine to Attack Google With An Army of Verticals http://www.altsearchengines.com/2008/07/09/search-war-yahoo-opens-its-search-engine-to-attack-google-with-an-army-of-verticals/ The most wonderful search engines you've never seen! Sat, 22 Nov 2008 16:14:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Elliott Ng http://www.altsearchengines.com/2008/07/09/search-war-yahoo-opens-its-search-engine-to-attack-google-with-an-army-of-verticals/#comment-77343 Elliott Ng Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:51:42 +0000 http://altsearchengines.com/2008/07/09/search-war-yahoo-opens-its-search-engine-to-attack-google-with-an-army-of-verticals/#comment-77343 I outlined my thoughts on this at the Uptake blog: http://tinyurl.com/5trabw Bottom line: BOSS API is not all that interesting for truly disruptive change. BOSS Custom goes further but integration of its search components into a truly disruptive service could be difficult. Anyway, the Yahoo! strategy and intent is totally right on target. The next step is to open up Yahoo! network traffic and allow for BOSS app integration into Yahoo! Search and network properties. I outlined my thoughts on this at the Uptake blog:

http://tinyurl.com/5trabw

Bottom line: BOSS API is not all that interesting for truly disruptive change. BOSS Custom goes further but integration of its search components into a truly disruptive service could be difficult. Anyway, the Yahoo! strategy and intent is totally right on target. The next step is to open up Yahoo! network traffic and allow for BOSS app integration into Yahoo! Search and network properties.

]]> By: Frank Schulte-Ladbeck http://www.altsearchengines.com/2008/07/09/search-war-yahoo-opens-its-search-engine-to-attack-google-with-an-army-of-verticals/#comment-77337 Frank Schulte-Ladbeck Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:16:29 +0000 http://altsearchengines.com/2008/07/09/search-war-yahoo-opens-its-search-engine-to-attack-google-with-an-army-of-verticals/#comment-77337 This is not my field, but I would like to know your opinion on what may be a dumb question. Being in the real estate profession, I follow the developments of the various alt search engines dealing with finding homes. There are many from the international reach to local sites dealing with a particular community. I am happy to see this development from Yahoo, but I was wondering about how it will effect the business model from some of these sites? Could many new sites proliferate, hurting their business models? I read in one article that Yahoo plans to do a revenue sharing in the future when ads are placed in the results, but it seems like that might not be the case yet. This is not my field, but I would like to know your opinion on what may be a dumb question. Being in the real estate profession, I follow the developments of the various alt search engines dealing with finding homes. There are many from the international reach to local sites dealing with a particular community. I am happy to see this development from Yahoo, but I was wondering about how it will effect the business model from some of these sites? Could many new sites proliferate, hurting their business models? I read in one article that Yahoo plans to do a revenue sharing in the future when ads are placed in the results, but it seems like that might not be the case yet.

]]> By: Alex http://www.altsearchengines.com/2008/07/09/search-war-yahoo-opens-its-search-engine-to-attack-google-with-an-army-of-verticals/#comment-77314 Alex Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:19:35 +0000 http://altsearchengines.com/2008/07/09/search-war-yahoo-opens-its-search-engine-to-attack-google-with-an-army-of-verticals/#comment-77314 This makes a huge difference for alternative search engines such as ours at (www.cluuz.com). As part of the Yahoo!BOSS alpha process we implemented the new API and from personal experience with the BOSS team I can tell you that they have a great vision. With this move Yahoo is fostering innovation in the search space as the alts are the ones doing all the interesting work in search these days. This makes a huge difference for alternative search engines such as ours at (www.cluuz.com). As part of the Yahoo!BOSS alpha process we implemented the new API and from personal experience with the BOSS team I can tell you that they have a great vision. With this move Yahoo is fostering innovation in the search space as the alts are the ones doing all the interesting work in search these days.

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