Yahoo! Search is taking another step in extending the Yahoo! Open Strategy with the launch of BOSS, a web services platform that allows developers and companies to create and launch web-scale search products by utilizing the same  technology that powers Yahoo! Search.
Our goal with BOSS (Build your Own Search Service) is simple — foster innovation […]

By Marshall Kirkpatrick of ReadWriteWeb
Yahoo! is taking a bold step tonight: opening up its index and search engine to any outside developers who want to incorporate Yahoo! Search’s content and functionality into search engines on their own sites. The company that sees just over 20% of the searches performed each day believes that the new […]

Ben Young has kindly decided to share his Scholarship winning essay on Live Search with AltSearchEngine readers.
In Challenges faced by Live Search in creating a Compelling experience my argument is that Live Search has been hindered by lack of a compelling experience.  Compelling experience is driven by flow.
My key findings (for those less akin to […]

By Frederic Lardinois
Evri, a Paul Allen backed semantic search engine, is launching into a limited beta today.  Evri was first shown publicly at the D6 conference. Evri’s CEO Neil Roseman likes to talk about Evri in terms of organizing content instead of calling it a search engine. At its core, however, Evri definitely is a […]

Why do a post on Dogpile, which searches the major search engines Google, Yahoo!, Live Search and Ask?

Because sometimes they do come up with something good that the alternative search engines might want to consider for their own widgets.  This is a great search widget, it “floats” above my desktop, it has Search Spy, where […]