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Disclaimer: I work for the Yahoo! Developer Network Right now you can use BOSS to get regular web search results and mix them in with you own results on your s

by sh1mmer 18y ago

Disclaimer: I work for the Yahoo! Developer Network Right now you can use BOSS to get regular web search results and mix them in with you own results on your side. I'm not sure about when vertical search will be available though. I'll follow up with some people here. I'm happy to email people who are interested when I have an update. You can email me at croucher@yarrhoo-inc.com once you fix the obviously silly pirate reference.

dangoldin 18y ago
What do you mean by the pirate reference? I've updated the grandparent to make more sense though.
- sundeep 18y ago
  > What do you mean by the pirate reference? i think he means you have to change the "yarrr" bit .. :)
- bk 18y ago
  I'm pretty sure he means to fix the deliberate piratized misspelling of yarrhoo-inc to yahoo-inc. This technique started with inserting "NOSPAM" into email addresses when posting them publicly on the web as a spam protection measure. Since email harvesters probably account for NOSPAM insertions by now, the pirate spelling is more effective and, on top of that, arguably funnier.
  - dangoldin 18y ago
    Ah thanks for the lesson. I didn't even notice the misspelling.
  - sh1mmer 18y ago
    That's pretty much the size ofit. In our office we definitely value funny. I was so tickled when I found out we own the misspelling yarhoo.com and point it at yahoo.com
    - whatusername 18y ago
      you really should try and get it to redirect to it's own page on Sep 19th. That would be awesome matey.
      - sh1mmer 18y ago
        I used to work on Frontpage and I had been trying to get a Pirate logo up. However they tend to only change the logo for major holidays or charities. The only charity I could find that did pirate day stuff are a cancer charity. Since October is Breast Cancer Awareness, that got vetoed for doing 2 cancer charity things too close together. Ah well... I'm going to have another go for next year. I was thinking that yarhoo.com could be a pirate translation of your homepage.
    - unalone 18y ago
      That's excellent. Yahoo's got a very fun sense of humor.
known 18y ago
How many web pages does BOSS index?

by sh1mmer 18y ago

dangoldin 18y ago

What do you mean by the pirate reference? I've updated the grandparent to make more sense though.

sundeep 18y ago
> What do you mean by the pirate reference? i think he means you have to change the "yarrr" bit .. :)
bk 18y ago
I'm pretty sure he means to fix the deliberate piratized misspelling of yarrhoo-inc to yahoo-inc. This technique started with inserting "NOSPAM" into email addresses when posting them publicly on the web as a spam protection measure. Since email harvesters probably account for NOSPAM insertions by now, the pirate spelling is more effective and, on top of that, arguably funnier.
- dangoldin 18y ago
  Ah thanks for the lesson. I didn't even notice the misspelling.
- sh1mmer 18y ago
  That's pretty much the size ofit. In our office we definitely value funny. I was so tickled when I found out we own the misspelling yarhoo.com and point it at yahoo.com
  - whatusername 18y ago
    you really should try and get it to redirect to it's own page on Sep 19th. That would be awesome matey.
    - sh1mmer 18y ago
      I used to work on Frontpage and I had been trying to get a Pirate logo up. However they tend to only change the logo for major holidays or charities. The only charity I could find that did pirate day stuff are a cancer charity. Since October is Breast Cancer Awareness, that got vetoed for doing 2 cancer charity things too close together. Ah well... I'm going to have another go for next year. I was thinking that yarhoo.com could be a pirate translation of your homepage.
  - unalone 18y ago
    That's excellent. Yahoo's got a very fun sense of humor.

known 18y ago

How many web pages does BOSS index?