First Yahoo BOSS For Blog Search Hits The Scene. How It Could Be Better
by Jason Wilk on November 26, 2008

- TechCrunch launched a very updated search engine for their blog content last night that indexes all posts from each of their sites, not just the flagship. It uses the Yahoo BOSS API (sick)
- Once you query something, it can be broken down by author, matching companies from CrunchBase or comments.
- The search is far more advanced than the basic WordPress default search engine. It even displays images with results.
- The nice part is, if you query something like ‘travel’ that doesn’t have too many results, it will fill in more content from the web and actually show your users search ads to make extra revenue.
- The one qualm I have always had with TechCrunch search, which is still there, is the inability to really break my search down by company categories. Example, then I search ‘Travel’, I would like to see every travel startup that has been written about by TechCrunch or indexed @ CrunchBase. For startup researchers or just general interest about compannies, this is what would make the search complete.
- It will be interesting to see how Wordpress reacts to this and if they will try and strike a search deal with the BOSS.
TC
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