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An Interview with Dr. Rudi Studer on Semantic Search TechnologiesDecember 16 2008

Dr. Rudi Studer is no stranger to the world of semantic search. A full professor in Applied Informatics at University of Karlsruhe, Dr. Studer is also director of the Karlsruhe Service Research Institute, an interdisciplinary center designed to spur new concepts and technologies for a services-based economy. His areas of research include ontology management, semantic web services, and knowledge management. He has been a past president of the Semantic Web Science Association and has served as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Web Semantics.

In addition to his duties as director of the KSRI, Dr. Studer is a vice president for Semantic Technologies Institute International and helped found ontoprise GmbH, an enterprise software company built around deploying semantic technologies. Dr. Studer recently gav

BOSS Reaches a MilestoneDecember 8 2008

We launched Yahoo! Search BOSS this past July and we just reached a significant milestone - the BOSS API is currently serving more than 10 million queries per day. 10 million in and of itself isn't particularly significant, but we're sharing it because we believe growing to more than 100 queries a second in just over 5 months says something about the demand for an open search platform. As a point of reference, the total queries from these developer-built, BOSS-powered search engines would rank ahead of the combined searches done on both Facebook and Amazon, and just behind Ask.com1. Note that because these queries are delivered via the BOSS API and served up by our partners, they aren't counted as Yahoo! Search queries by comScore or other metrics providers.

Since launch, we've been focused on adding features and building up the ecosystem. We'll maintain that emphasis in 2009, as well as adding monetizing capabilities to the platform. Our plans have been driven by what we've heard from developers on our

BOSS Reaches a MilestoneDecember 8 2008

We launched Yahoo! Search BOSS this past July and we just reached a significant milestone - the BOSS API is currently serving more than 10 million queries per day. 10 million in and of itself isn’t particularly significant, but we’re sharing it because we believe growing to more than 100 queries a second in just over 5 months says something about the demand for an open search platform. As a point of reference, the total queries from these developer-built, BOSS-powered search engines would rank ahead of the combined searches done on both Facebook and Amazon, and just behind Ask.com1. Note that because these queries are delivered via the BOSS API and served up by our partners, they aren’t counted as Yahoo! Search queries by comScore or other metrics providers.

Since launch, we’ve been focused on adding features and building up the ecosystem. We’ll maintain that emphasis in 2009, as well as adding monetizing capabilities to the platform. Our plans have been driven by what we’ve heard from developers on our

Yahoo! Search Blog Offline for Site MaintenanceDecember 4 2008

We wanted to give our loyal readers a heads up that tomorrow we’ll be making some backend updates to the Yahoo! Search Blog. If you come by for a visit and notice that the site is down, don’t be alarmed - we’re not going anywhere. We’ll be taking the blog offline early tomorrow morning and should be back up within an hour or two.

Of course, if you have any questions, let us know in the comments below.

Yahoo! Search Blog team

Look Before You Click: Search Assist for Image SearchDecember 3 2008

We just took a look back at the progress we’ve made over the last year with Search Assist and a look forward to our goals of continuing to improve the usefulness of our assistance technology.

With this objective in mind, we recently launched Search Assist for image search to guide users to the answers they seek in a new way. To better enhance the search experience, we took a two-tiered approach to the query formulation and refinement process. In the first stage, we’ve maintained the same paradigm of text suggestions that have helped users of web search complete and refine queries. The second stage is new - from now on, Search Assist can be opened after a query is entered into the search box for users to preview sample thumbnails for the top related search terms.

So if you search for roses in image search, you can preview the types of results you’ll get for red roses,