gnoos : RSS U @ Y!SearchBoss ?

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I'm really grokking the sound of the Yahoo BOSS search back end program. I've got to ask The Boss BigKev, as over next quarter we are going to focus very hard on the public developer and commercial publisher wanting to tap into hyperlocal user generated search, intelligence and syndication. But YahooSearchBlog is singing my ditty about what it takes to deliver the back end requirements of the Aussie Social Graph :

"Doing so requires hundreds of millions of dollars of investment in engineering, sciences and core infrastructure -- from crawling and indexing technology to relevancy and machine learning algorithms, to stuff as mundane as data centers, servers and power. Because competing successfully in web search requires an investment of this scale, new players have effectively been prohibited from delivering credible alternatives to Yahoo! and Google. We believe the BOSS platform will begin to change that... BOSS gives you access to Yahoo!'s investments in crawling and indexing, ranking and relevancy algorithms, and powerful infrastructure."

It seems like they've got some quality companies using the solution (hakia, me.dium) so if it isnt just an elaborate Yahoo Ad or rebadge our search offer, if it is more commercial open source : Lucene meets Amazon Web Services for example, that would rock. I'm projecting, but getting excited by focusing on the mile deep, inchwide side of hyperlocal UGC, rather than the horizontal milewide, inch deep of Enterprise 2.0.











Yahoo Search Boss product manager types feel free to contact me as I go check out what u've got on the interwebs and get my internal geek feedback, and any1 that's been checking out for their own perusal/use.. I'd like to take my 150k gnoos.com.au feeds and bolt them into YahooBoss. Feel free (in all $en$e$ of the word) to tell me what u think about it (is it serious enterprise, opensource, customisable, etc not just some widgety plugin thing), what u can actually do past the press release (do i have to use the - whole or designated part - yahoo index, can u use it on your own index) So tweet dm, email etc me. Irrespective of solution (there are lots of APIs/indexes/feeds we will be looking at fetching eg twitter/summize.com API for aussie users, etc), those with interesting stuff to say, and even better do, we'll be looking to hire, contract, as we need to find the search, filtering, hyperlocal, architecty developer gun(s). Location also is flexible, the closer to Melbourne better, but closer to search, UGC, RSS brilliance easily trumps location :)