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==Yahoo! BOSS extractor example== | ==Yahoo! BOSS extractor example== | ||
| + | In this example Wandora user searches Yahoo BOSS with query '''Wandora'''. First user starts Yahoo! BOSS extractor by selecting menu option '''File > Extract > Search engines > Yahoo BOSS extractor...'''. | ||
[[Image:yahoo_boss_example_01.gif|center]] | [[Image:yahoo_boss_example_01.gif|center]] | ||
| + | Wandora opens a dialog window with a text field and a drop down selection list. User writes her query word '''Wandora''' to the text field and leaves the search type to '''web''. Other possible search types are '''images''' and '''news'''. Image search returns a result set with web images. News search result set contains only news items. | ||
[[Image:yahoo_boss_example_02.gif|center]] | [[Image:yahoo_boss_example_02.gif|center]] | ||
| + | Search starts when user clicks the '''Extract''' button. Usually the search and result set processing takes only few seconds. When Wandora is ready, a log is viewed. | ||
[[Image:yahoo_boss_example_03.gif|center]] | [[Image:yahoo_boss_example_03.gif|center]] | ||
| + | Now Wandora user can start exploring created topics and associations. Topic tree on the left edge contains new topic '''Yahoo! BOSS'''. Opening the topic reveals topics '''Yahoo! BOSS query''' and '''Yahoo! BOSS search result'''. These two type topics collect all queries and results together. | ||
[[Image:yahoo_boss_example_04.gif|center]] | [[Image:yahoo_boss_example_04.gif|center]] | ||
Revision as of 21:54, 17 November 2010
Yahoo! BOSS (Build your Own Search Service) is a search web service. External application such as Wandora can send search queries to the web service and receive back query results in XML format. Wandora's Yahoo! BOSS extractor converts user query and query result XML to topics and associations using a similar scheme as Wandora's Bing extractor. As a result, target topic map has a query topic and it is associated to separate query result topics, each representing single query result. Wandora's Yahoo! BOSS extractor can be used to reveal related web resources of a topic, for example.
Yahoo! BOSS extractor example
In this example Wandora user searches Yahoo BOSS with query Wandora. First user starts Yahoo! BOSS extractor by selecting menu option File > Extract > Search engines > Yahoo BOSS extractor....
Wandora opens a dialog window with a text field and a drop down selection list. User writes her query word Wandora' to the text field and leaves the search type to web. Other possible search types are images and news. Image search returns a result set with web images. News search result set contains only news items.
Search starts when user clicks the Extract button. Usually the search and result set processing takes only few seconds. When Wandora is ready, a log is viewed.
Now Wandora user can start exploring created topics and associations. Topic tree on the left edge contains new topic Yahoo! BOSS. Opening the topic reveals topics Yahoo! BOSS query and Yahoo! BOSS search result. These two type topics collect all queries and results together.
