4hoursearch, a great BOSS mashup!

4hoursearch, is a Yahoo’s Best BOSS Search Mashups.below, is so named because, developer Sam Pullara says, “It took 4 hours to write the initial code, 4 hours for it to go from unknown to 20 hits / second, 4 hours looking for a domain name and 4 hours to build the brand new UI. Fortunately, it won’t take 4 hours to find something with it.” More at ProgrammableWeb 4 hour search description.

The Yahoo! Search Blog mention that it was originally named Yuil and conceived as a parody of recent search engine start-up Cuil;

Example and demonstration site: www.4hoursearch.com & www.eachfind.com

Yahoo! BOSS is easy — meet 4hoursearch

4HourSearch - A week ago Yahoo VP of Platforms Sam Pullara released Yuil, a search engine that looked nearly exactly like recently launched (and overhyped) Cuil, but powered by Yahoo’s BOSS.

The search engine actually managed to produce better results than Cuil by many accounts, but it was not to be - lawyers stepped in and Yuil was taken down only hours after it first went up. Pullara ripped the guts out of of Yuil and redid the layout to be less tempting to DMCA-hungry lawyers, leaving us with 4HourSearch (which was apparently created in 4 hours).

Yahoo Boss Is So Open, It Runs on Google’s App Engine

In a demonstration of just how open Yahoo search can be, one of its senior engineers has created a simple search mashup that combines Yahoo’s BOSS framework and Google’s App Engine. Yahoo BOSS allows developers to create their own customized search apps based on Yahoo’s search engine, and the Google App Engine is a platform for hosting apps. Vik Singh, the engineer who leads the Yahoo Boss project (and a former Google engineer) created a simple Question-Answering Service, where you put in a question, and it tries to come up with the answer based on the top 50 results from Yahoo. (So, if you ask, “Who invented the light bulb?,” it looks for the most popular dates in the top 50 results and returns: “Thomas Edison”).

4HourSearch,Mashup BOSS & GAE

4HourSearch,A simple search engine built on the Yahoo! BOSS (Build your Own Search Service) platform and Google App Engine
Why 4hoursearch? It took 4 hours to write the initial code, 4 hours for it to go from unknown to 20 hits / second, 4 hours looking for a domain name and 4 hours to build the brand new UI. Fortunately, it won’t take 4 hours to find something with it
Yuil is now 4hoursearch.com