BOSS, is an open search web service platform by Yahoo with an aim to “foster innovations in search industry”.
Yahoo opened its search infrastructure around four months back giving developers an opportunity to use Yahoo’s core search technology to build their own search engine.
The queries sent via yahoo API returns 50 results in XML or JSON format along with imposed ads from yahoo displayed next to or within the result. Yahoo may impose some fees associated with the search if the developer decides to keep the search ad free. One exception to this imposition will be the academic developers.
The developers are free to hide the fact that their search is based on Yahoo. Another benefit is the fact that it does not impose any upper limit to the number queries searched or on the design of the page.
Now, the main differences between BOSS and Google’s Ajax is that the former is found to be more developer-friendly offering more features and flexibility, for example there is an option of getting XML output. Also, use of BOSS doesn't require "a valid and accurate http referrer header" as in case of AJAX.
BOSS is a bold move and is getting popular among developers. HAKIA and Med.ium have already moved to BOSS. Yahoo plans to give even more flexibility to the developers by allowing the developers to push their own data for indexing.
Read more (references):
http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/04/google-search-rest-api.html
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/09/yahoo-radically-opens-web-search-with-boss/
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