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October 08, 2008

Yahoo! Search Builder - R.I.P.

I'm bummed! Just went to Yahoo! Search Builder to confirm something for a presentation I'm giving at the London Online show in December, and I see that

Yahoo! Search is shutting down Search Builder.  Beginning October 15, 2008, we will no longer support Search Builder.

Most of the functionality provided by SearchBuilder is available through two other Yahoo! Search services:

  • SearchMonkey Using a special query parameter, SearchMonkey allows you to restrict queries to your site. In addition, SearchMonkey allows you to control the appearance of your search results.
  • BOSS Provides API access to the Yahoo! Search index and includes the ability to restrict to up to 30 sites.

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    Too bad - I liked how Search Builder worked....

    Posted at 07:44 PM in web / search |

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