Cluuz Gets BOSS-y
July 12, 2008
Cluuz.com’s owner–Sprylogics in Toronto, Ontario–alerted me that BOSS , Yahoo’s Build Your Own Search Service–will power Cluuz.com’s search results.The Sprylogics’ news release made me chuckle with this statement:
… www.cluuz.com will now be powered by one of the most valuable assets on the Web, the Yahoo! Search infrastructure.
Yahoo.com certainly makes headlines, but it isn’t doing a spectacular job in Web search. Google’s lead keeps inching forward. Yahoo drifts backward.
Sprylogics, like Hakia, and other search and content processing system providers can use the Yahoo plumbing without paying the sometimes sky-high fees asked of some in recent years. As a user of Cluuz.com, the Yahoo results can yield some useful nuggets. Yahoo’s native search system doesn’t meet my needs, so I poke around the specialized engines that are listed here.
In the near future, I will run some test queries and record my opinions in this Web log. I wrote a short description of the Cluuz.com system on May 8, 2008. You can find this write up here.
Stephen Arnold, July 12, 2008
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