BOSS (Build your Own Search Service) is Yahoo's new open search platform. Using the BOSS API, developers have access to Yahoo's entire search index to create custom searches, mashups, and more. Read more about it here. A practical (and simple) use...Read More

According to tgdaily.com, Firefox's market share has seen some significant growth since the 3.0 release. Microsoft’s Internet Explorer market share is trending down, while Mozilla is playing with the 20% range and is successfully jumping over this m...Read More

According to this InformationWeek article: In 1998, when Google opened for business, it had 26 million URLs. By 2000, it had reached 1 billion. In 2005, Google claimed it had more than 8 billion Web pages in its index, at least until it took the ind...Read More

I am happy to announce that the winners of the Yahoo SearchMonkey Developer Challenge have been posted on YSearchBlog and the grand prize winner is none other than yours truly. Judges included Michael Arrington of TechCrunch, Rasmus Lerdorf of Yahoo...Read More

Google Code Jam is a coding competition in which professional and student programmers are asked to solve complex algorithmic challenges in a limited amount of time. Registration ends on July 17. $80,000 in prize money will be distributed starting wi...Read More