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Ratn Deo--Dev
Ratn Deo--Dev

Reputation: 1038

How to get better suggestion(spelling) on Yahoo BOSS?

I have been using Yahoo BOSS for little time. It is an easy API for search but spelling suggestion support is really not that robust. Do folks around here have any idea of getting better spelling suggestion on BOSS.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 371

Answers (2)

Julian
Julian

Reputation: 9130

Unfortunately even a couple of years later, the spelling suggestions on the Yahoo BOSS API are very basic and not that useful :(

I compared the results -on single word queries- from the BOSS API to what you see in Google (did you mean ____?) for 100 random english words with a computer generated spelling error in them. Google guessed them right 98% of the time. Yahoo only 2%.

Upvotes: 2

Craig London
Craig London

Reputation: 674

Since you originally asked your question it looks like they added a "Spelling Service".

http://developer.yahoo.com/boss/search/boss_api_guide/Spelling_Suggest.html

Give it a look to see if it will accomplish what you are trying to achieve.

Upvotes: 1

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