On Tuesday, Ashim Chhabra with the Yahoo! BOSS Team posted in the official company search blog on the series launch of new BOSS Key Terms.
About four months ago, Yahoo! began to open up its infrastructure with the help of Yahoo! BOSS. An abundance of user feedback pointed to an increase in developers’ desire to have even more access to the search company’s “infrastructure assets.”
Key Terms, the new series of features added to Yahoo! BOSS, provide third-party developers with just such access.
Key Terms is a version of the search company’s own search function, to so-called “Prisma.” Combined with Search Assist technologies, Key Terms is able to order terms in a comprehensive and accurate manner that explains “what a document is about.”
Chhabra explained that Key Terms arranges a document’s terms based on the number of times it occurs as well as “positional and contextual heuristics.”
So why would a developer be interested in using Yahoo! Boss Key Terms? Chhabra pointed out that Key Terms has several versatile functions. It can be used as:
- the foundation “for assistance and refinement technology”
- a way to integrate “semantic analysis or new relevancy models”
- a way to “analyze and cluster similar documents”
- and overall, “a vehicle for new visual experiences”
Other new features in the key Terms package are API access for third-party web developers, View— a universal parameter, and several new languages including Romanian, Hebrew, and Turkish to facilitate international developers.
Yahoo! posted a comprehensive BOSS documentation which explores all of the ways developers can use Key Terms to their web project’s advantage
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