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#sientists #time #akbgo #education #popular #usefull #schools #college Time, as scientists understand it, is particles in motion relative to each other. We measure time by the earth's rotation and movement around the sun (days and years). Scientists know about the rate of breakdown of uranium into lead, a very slow process that allows them to estimate the age of the earth to something like 4.4 billion years. Scientists don't pretend to grasp the vast interconnected reality around us in its entirety, but, with incomplete knowledge, physicists grasp the universe as energy (E), equal to mass (M) times the speed of light (C) squared (Emc2). Any mass, including rock, has energy, detectable when its atoms are split. Astrophysicists speak of matter that is relatively light in weight coming together to form heavier matter. They describe gravitation as a major force, black holes as concentrated centers of gravitational pull, a pull so great that not even light gets away, thus the blackness. Astrophysicists gather that the universe has been expanding. Galaxies have been moving away from a dense central configuration for the past 15 billion years or so following what is being described as the "Big Bang," thought of by some as a beginning. The astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson says we don't know what went on before the Big Bang. He doesn't argue whether time is a finite or infinite void. Scientists describe what they can measure and these are questions beyond measurement. Scientists have mapped celestial bodies. Nearest to our galaxy – the Milky Way – is the Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy, 25,000 light-years from our solar system, a distance that would take 250,000 years to cover traveling at one-tenth the speed of light: 67,064,760 miles per hour). The farthest object from us that we know of is a distance of about 10 billion light years. In other words, the light from this object that we see today left there 10 billion years ago. Getting more local, geologists claim that the sun and earth are around 4.55 billion years old, and they describe the sun as moving around our galaxy at roughly 500,000 miles per hour. One revolution around the galaxy is said to take 200 million years. Dividing 4,550 by 200 makes 23 revolutions around our galaxy since the sun and earth formed. This means that since the end of the last major ice age, some ten thousand years ago, the Earth has moved only one twenty-thousandth of a revolution through our galaxy. Geologists describe the earth as having come together gravitationally. Hot and fluid energy was condensing into what we now see as the solids around us. The denser matter (iron and nickel) settled at the center. The less dense matter, in the form of rocks, rose to the surface. And, as the earth gave off heat, its outer layers cooled, leaving Earth's interior hot and molten. Gasses bubbled to the surface, eventually to become atmosphere. When the temperature was right, gasses in the atmosphere produced clouds that contained moisture – hydrogen and oxygen. It began to rain, and water began to cover much of the earth's surface. Scientists consider that life might have come to the planet Earth with interplanetary dust or comets. Teams from the University of California, Berkeley, and from the University of Hawaii, Manoa, have shown that conditions in space are capable of creating complex dipeptides – linked pairs of amino acids – that are essential building blocks shared by all living things. Biology, the study of life, includes botany, the study of plant life. Biologists claim that earliest forms of life consisted of carbon, water, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphor (sic), sulfur and other materials. Among the chemicals on the Earth's surface are two nucleic acids: DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) and RNA (ribonucleic acid). Plants and living creatures are cellular. About 3,800 million years ago there were on earth simple cells that lacked a nucleus: bacteria. About 3,000 million years ago photosynthesis developed. Photosynthesis occurred when sunlight acted upon a certain kind of bacteria and unicellular algae. There was photosynthesis, a source of carbon within organic compounds, and these compounds released oxygen into the atmosphere. About 2,400 million years ago, photosynthesis began to oxygenate the earth's atmosphere. bacteria About 2,000 million years ago organisms developed that were cells with complex structures enclosed within membranes – eukaryotes cells. Proteins within a cell, in a region called dehydrons, became unstable in a watery environment. With this instability, "sticky" proteins were more likely to work together in building more complex networks of gene and protein interactions. Around 1,000 million years ago multicellular life began. Nearly all life was dependent on photosynthesis, which converted energy from the sun into food for an organism. Vegetable life in the form of algae transferred out of water and became more complex plant life, and plant life eventually became nutrition for creatures that crawled out of the ocean. To survive, organisms were dependent upon on environmental conditions that included moisture. This was so also for bacteria (hence preservation of food by freeze-drying). And like bacteria, virus microorganisms were also dependent on environmental conditions to survive, and they were parasitical. In plants and living creatures cells divide, which occurs daily. Divided cells are usually identical to one another, but there are also divisions that are imperfect, creating a mutation and biological change. Around 600 million years ago organisms appeared that today we label as simple animals – organisms that included bacteria that plants and animals needed for their survival. Bacteria worked in the digestive systems of insects and animals. Simple animals acquired energy by devouring other organisms. To survive, both plants and animals needed the ability to pass moisturize through their systems – to absorb and to excrete water. Some people see happenstance in these creations. The branches of trees reach out unevenly with leaves exposed to needed sunlight. A chaos of creeks meander from various directions to a lower elevation and forms a lake surrounded by a chaos of vegetation. Cellular mutations have also been viewed as a kind of chaos. And an environment may be suitable or unsuitable for certain developments. Where winters are extremely cold the only trees that survive are those with piney needles or leaves that fall in autumn. Biologists today see genetic mutations in micro-organisms. Knowledge of this has progressed to the point where biologists can now alter or add a characteristic to an animal's DNA, fluorescence for example, that will be passed to their offspring. Regarding mutations and change among the earth's creatures, creatures with jointed appendages, called arthropods, are estimated to have come into existence around 570 million years ago. And around 500 million years ago fish appeared, followed 25 million years later by land plants. Scientists calculate that around 400 million years ago, sea temperatures fell to levels near today's temperatures, creating a more hospitable environment for species to flourish. In what is today Poland, the footprints of four-legged creatures – surmised to have been crocodile-like – have been found preserved in carbonate rock, the footprints are estimated to be 397 million years old. Another estimation is that 300 million years ago, spiders appeared that had the ability to make silk but not to make webs, before there were flying insects to catch. Around 360 million years ago came amphibians. Sixty million years later reptiles appeared, and 100 million years after that came the first mammals. Plant life was able to survive without a brain. It received its nutrition and moisture without having to make choices. But creatures that needed to make an effort to get nutrition and to protect themselves would not have survived without a brain. Around 230 to 220 million years ago dinosaurs first appeared. Paleontologists estimate that the age of the dinosaurs (the Jurassic Period) began 20 million years later. Approximately 80 million years later mammals first appeared – in the form of small nocturnal creatures that fed on insects and nursed their young. Paleontologists estimate that dinosaurs became extinct 65 million years ago, while birds and other smaller creatures better able to survive flourished. Scientists calculate that 38 million years ago primates appeared – creatures resembling monkeys and apes. Biologists speak of variation between species and within species – a species being a collection of creatures that interbreed. Within a species, imprecise replications occur from parent to offspring – unlike cloning, which creates identical genetic duplicates. Across a great span of time, some variations survived and other variations did not. The fossilized bones of an ape that lived around 10 million years ago were discovered in a volcanic mud deposit in what is today northern Kenya. It is considered among those primates that preceded gorillas, chimps and humans. To quote the science reporter for the BBC, Helen Briggs, "Genetic studies suggest that the ancestors of humans and chimpanzees went along their separate pathways of evolution about five million to seven million years ago." According to findings at an archaeological dig in what today is southeastern Spain, 1.8 million years ago the following creatures lived side by side: giant hyenas, saber-toothed cats, zebras, giraffes, gazelles, wolves, wild boar and lynx. (BBC News, October 30, 2007). DNA analysis suggests that a common ancestor of modern humans (Homo sapiens) and Neanderthals lived between 800,000 and 520,000 years ago, and around 700,000 years ago the two began developing into distinctly different species. Biologically, humans are a work in survival. The species of animal that we call human developed across thousands of years. Humans have many of the characteristics of other animals, including those that lived in trees. But an ancestor of the human species had become too big to live comfortably in trees. A human's legs had become longer and his pelvis reshaped, both of which helped the human to walk and run upright, which was more energy efficient and helped in running after game. Humanity's skin was exposed, keeping it cooler with sweat and evaporation and allowing it to run farther without suffering heat stroke as did their prey. Unlike chimpanzees, humans had broad shoulders that allowed it to throw stones and spears with deadly force. The human species benefited from brain development, allowing people to adapt to the ups and downs of climate change across the thousands of years in addition to various other circumstances. Humans have a brain chemistry – dopamines to be exact – that make them want to eat and to have sex, without which the human species would not survive. Body chemistry also made fighting and empathy possible, the latter allowing them to live in a group. Hunting and gathering required access to great stretches of land that was not occupied by other humans. Enough game was left to them by other predators. They could gather food that grew wild, and they had access to drinkable water. Unlike chimpanzees, their brain was structured to allow complex verbalization. They had the ability to reflect on their activities and actions. Humans need to have been born with the right body chemistry for their minds to contend with life. If they don't have it, they are dependent on others who do. With a settled and affluent existence, humans have been better able to care for these individuals. Given the brain that they have inherited, humans have been better able than other species to manipulate their surroundings. Unlike other creatures, they have altered landscapes and the atmosphere. #history #akbco #verified #popular #trending #hi #billions #news #education #yousolveit

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i f your doctor recommends it, there are ways to lose weight safely. A steady weight loss of 1 to 2 pounds per week is recommended for the most effective long-term weight management. That said, many eating plans leave you feeling hungry or unsatisfied. These are major reasons why you might find it hard to stick to a healthier eating plan. However, not all diets have this effect. Low carb diets and whole food, lower calorie diets are effective for weight loss and may be easier to stick to than other diets. Here are some ways to lose weight that employ healthy eating, potentially lower carbs, and that aim to: reduce your appetite cause fast weight loss improve your metabolic health at the same time Share on Pinterest 1. Cut back on refined carbs One way to lose weight quickly is to cut back on sugars and starches, or carbohydrates. This could be with a low carb eating plan or by reducing refined carbs and replacing them with whole grains. When you do that, your hunger levels go down, and you generally end up eating fewer calories (1). With a low carb eating plan, you’ll utilize burning stored fat for energy instead of carbs. If you choose to eat more complex carbs like whole grains along with a calorie deficit, you’ll benefit from higher fiber and digest them more slowly. This makes them more filling to keep you satisfied. A 2020 study confirmed that a very low carbohydrate diet was beneficial for losing weight in older populations (2). Research also suggests that a low carb diet can reduce appetite, which may lead to eating fewer calories without thinking about it or feeling hungry (3). Note that the long-term effects of a low carb diet are still being researched. It can also be difficult to adhere to a low carb diet, which may lead to yo-yo dieting and less success in maintaining a healthy weight. There are potential downsides to a low carb diet that may lead you to a different method. Reduced calorie diets can also lead to weight loss and be easier to maintain for longer periods of time. If you opt for a diet focusing instead on whole grains over refined carbs, a 2019 study correlated high whole grain with lower body mass index (BMI) (4Trusted Source). To determine the best way for you to lose weight, consult your doctor for recommendations. SUMMARYReducing sugars and starches, or carbs, from your diet can help curb your appetite, lower your insulin levels, and make you lose weight. But the long-term effects of a low carb diet are not yet known. A reduced calorie diet could be more sustainable. 2. Eat protein, fat, and vegetables Each one of your meals should include: a protein source fat source vegetables a small portion of complex carbohydrates, such as whole grains To see how you can assemble your meals, check out: this low carb meal plan this lower calorie meal plan these lists of 101 healthy low carb recipes and low calorie foods Protein Eating a recommended amount of protein is essential to help preserve your health and muscle mass while losing weight (5Trusted Source). Evidence suggests that eating adequate protein may improve cardiometabolic risk factors, appetite, and body weight, (6Trusted Source, 7Trusted Source, 8Trusted Source). Here’s how to determine how much you need to eat without eating too much. Many factors determine your specific needs, but generally, an average person needs (9Trusted Source): 56–91 grams per day for the average male 46–75 grams per day for the average female Diets with adequate protein can also help: reduce cravings and obsessive thoughts about food by 60% reduce the desire to snack late at night by half make you feel full In one study, people on a higher protein diet ate 441 fewer calories per day (10Trusted Source, 11Trusted Source). Healthy protein sources include: meat: beef, chicken, pork, and lamb fish and seafood: salmon, trout, and shrimp eggs: whole eggs with the yolk plant-based proteins: beans, legumes, quinoa, tempeh, and tofu Low carb and leafy green vegetables Don’t be afraid to load your plate with leafy green vegetables. They’re packed with nutrients, and you can eat very large amounts without greatly increasing calories and carbs. Vegetables to include for low carb or low calorie eating plans: broccoli cauliflower spinach tomatoes kale Brussels sprouts cabbage Swiss chard lettuce cucumber Healthy fats Don’t be afraid of eating fats. Your body still requires healthy fats no matter what eating plan you choose. Olive oil and avocado oil are great choices for including in your eating plan. Other fats such as butter and coconut oil should be used only in moderation due to their higher saturated fat content (12Trusted Source). SUMMARYAssemble each meal out of a protein source, healthy fat source, complex carb, and vegetables. Leafy green vegetables are a great way to bulk up a meal with low calories and lots of nutrients. 3. Move your body Exercise, while not required to lose weight, can help you lose weight more quickly. Lifting weights has particularly good benefits. By lifting weights, you’ll burn lots of calories and prevent your metabolism from slowing down, which is a common side effect of losing weight (13, 14Trusted Source, 15Trusted Source). Try going to the gym three to four times a week to lift weights. If you’re new to the gym, ask a trainer for some advice. Make sure your doctor is also aware of any new exercise plans. If lifting weights is not an option for you, doing some cardio workouts such as walking, jogging, running, cycling, or swimming is very beneficial for weight loss and general health. Both cardio and weightlifting can help with weight loss. SUMMARYResistance training, such as weightlifting, is a great option for losing weight. If that’s not possible, cardio workouts are also effective. Choose what’s sustainable for you. ADVERTISEMENT Start a custom weight loss program Noom helps you adopt healthy habits so you can lose weight and keep it off. Your program is customized to your goals and fitness needs. Just take a quick assessment and get started today. LEARN MORE What about calories and portion control? If you opt for a low carb eating plan, it’s not necessary to count calories as long as you keep your carb intake very low and stick to protein, fat, and low carb vegetables. If you find yourself not losing weight, you may want to keep track of your calories to see if that’s a contributing factor. If you’re sticking to a calorie deficit to lose weight, you can use a free online calculator like this one. Enter your sex, weight, height, and activity levels. The calculator will tell you how many calories to eat per day to maintain your weight, lose weight, or lose weight fast. You can also download free, easy-to-use calorie counters from websites and app stores. Here’s a list of 5 calorie counters to try. Note that eating too few calories can be dangerous and less effective for losing weight. Aim to reduce your calories by a sustainable and healthy amount based on your doctor’s recommendation. SUMMARYCounting calories isn’t usually needed to lose weight on a low carb eating plan. But if you’re not losing weight or on a reduced calorie eating plan, calorie counting may help. 9 weight loss tips Here are 9 more tips to lose weight faster: Eat a high protein breakfast. Eating a high protein breakfast could help reduce cravings and calorie intake throughout the day (16Trusted Source, 17Trusted Source). Avoid sugary drinks and fruit juice. Empty calories from sugar aren’t useful to your body and can hinder weight loss (18Trusted Source, 19). Drink water before meals. One study showed that drinking water before meals reduced calorie intake and may be effective in weight management (20Trusted Source). Choose weight-loss-friendly foods. Some foods are better for weight loss than others. Here is a list of healthy weight-loss-friendly foods. Eat soluble fiber. Studies show that soluble fibers may promote weight loss. Fiber supplements like glucomannan can also help (21Trusted Source, 22Trusted Source, 23). Drink coffee or tea. Caffeine consumption can boost your metabolism (24Trusted Source, 25). Base your diet on whole foods. They’re healthier, more filling, and much less likely to cause overeating than processed foods. Eat slowly. Eating quickly can lead to weight gain over time, while eating slowly makes you feel more full and boosts weight-reducing hormones (26Trusted Source). Get good quality sleep. Sleep is important for many reasons, and poor sleep is one of the biggest risk factors for weight gain (27, 28, 29). For more tips on weight loss, read about natural tips for losing weight here. SUMMARYEating whole foods, higher protein, soluble fiber, and less sugar can help you lose more weight. Don’t forget to get a good night’s sleep, too. Sample meal ideas for fast weight loss These sample meal plans are low carb, which limits carbs to 20–50 carbs per day. Each meal should have protein, healthy fats, and veggies. If you’d prefer to lose weight while still eating complex carbs, add in some healthy whole grains such as: quinoa whole oats whole wheat bran rye barley Breakfast ideas poached egg with sliced avocado and a side of berries spinach, mushroom, and feta crustless quiche green smoothie with spinach, avocado, and nut milk and a side of cottage cheese unsweetened Greek yogurt with berries and almonds Lunch ideas smoked salmon with avocado and a side of asparagus lettuce wrap with grilled chicken, black beans, red pepper, and salsa kale and spinach salad with grilled tofu, chickpeas, and guacamole BLT wrap with celery sticks and peanut butter Dinner ideas enchilada salad with chicken, peppers, mango, avocado, and spices ground turkey bake with mushrooms, onions, peppers, and cheese antipasto salad with white beans, asparagus, cucumbers, olive oil, and Parmesan roasted cauliflower with tempeh, Brussels sprouts, and pine nuts salmon baked with ginger, sesame oil, and roasted zucchini Snack ideas cauliflower hummus and veggies healthy homemade trail mix with nuts and dried fruit kale chips cottage cheese with cinnamon and flaxseeds spicy roasted chickpeas roasted pumpkin seeds tuna pouches steamed edamame strawberries and brie How fast will you lose weight? You may lose 5–10 pounds (2.3–4.5 kg) of weight — sometimes more — in the first week of a diet plan and then lose weight consistently after that. The first week is usually a loss of both body fat and water weight. If you’re new to dieting, weight loss may happen more quickly. The more weight you have to lose, the faster you’ll lose it. Unless your doctor suggests otherwise, losing 1–2 pounds per week is usually a safe amount. If you’re trying to lose weight faster than that, speak to your doctor about a safe level of calorie reduction. Aside from weight loss, a low carb diet can improve your health in a few ways, though the long-term effects are not yet known: blood sugar levels tend to significantly decrease on low carb diets (30) triglycerides tend to go down (31) LDL (bad) cholesterol goes down (32Trusted Source) blood pressure improves significantly (33Trusted Source) Other diet types that reduce calories and increase whole foods are also associated with improved metabolic markers and slower aging (34, 35Trusted Source, 36Trusted Source). Ultimately, you may find a more balanced diet that includes complex carbohydrates is more sustainable. SUMMARYSignificant weight can be lost on a low carb or low calorie diet, but the speed depends on the individual. General weight loss can improve certain markers of health, such as blood sugar and cholesterol levels. The bottom line By reducing carbs or replacing refined carbs with complex carbs, you’ll likely experience reduced appetite and hunger. This removes the main reasons it’s often difficult to maintain a weight loss plan. With a sustainable low carb or lower calorie eating plan, you can eat healthy food until you’re full and still lose a significant amount of fat. The initial drop in water weight can lead to a drop in the scales within a few days. Fat loss takes longer. Tags:- #Waystoloseweight #Calories #portions #Tips #Meal #ideas #Howfasttolose #Bottomline

You can choose any 8-hour window to consume calories. Some people opt to skip breakfast and fast from noon to 8 p.m., while others avoid eating late and stick to a 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. schedule. Limiting the number of hours that you can eat during the day may help you lose weight and lower your blood pressure. #loseweight #farmers #akbco #howto #photo #new #iamtiger #bollywood #news

Yahoo! has just unveiled the next phase in their plan to spur search innovation by providing search-related resources to developers. The Yahoo! Build Your Own Search Service (BOSS) enables developers to access Yahoo! search results, combine them with other sources, rerank them, and define their appearance. Yahoo! says they are making BOSS available in an […] Vanessa Fox on July 10, 2008 at 12:01 am Yahoo! has just unveiled the next phase in their plan to spur search innovation by providing search-related resources to developers. The Yahoo! Build Your Own Search Service (BOSS) enables developers to access Yahoo! search results, combine them with other sources, rerank them, and define their appearance. Yahoo! says they are making BOSS available in an attempt to spur innovation in the search space and disrupt the market. They point out that unlike with other web companies, a search startup has many obstacles: from cost (it takes a lot of machines to process all the web’s data) to expertise (some of the world’s smartest PhDs work at the major search engines) to historical data (which search companies can only get a hold of by that old-fashioned method of waiting). Below, more on what Yahoo! is making available through BOSS and how likely it is that the launch will really create the next Google. Is BOSS different from the search APIs offered by Google and Microsoft? On first glance, the BOSS API seems somewhat similar to Google’s custom search API and Microsoft’s Live Search API. It enables developers to request search results (from web search, news, and images), reorder them, and style them. However, Yahoo! points out key differences, mostly based on the overall intent of the BOSS program (to power new search startups). Yahoo’s API allows unlimited queries, a necessary feature for developers who use the API to build a search engine. And it allows for mashups of its data with other data sources. Hakia, for instance, is using the API to blend Yahoo! results with their own and runs all results through their proprietary algorithm, SemanticRank. And they are displaying Yahoo!’s image results in a mashup with their own web index results. Neither Google nor Microsoft allow such flexibility, and both require branding of the search results. Yahoo! doesn’t provide access to its ranking signals, but it does allow developers to add their own signals to the set of results. Me.dium is using the API to order results based on social signals, notably what pages its users have accessed recently. Yahoo! provided two examples of custom ranking: search results reordered for popularity based on matches to popular Delicious results and search results reordered based on topical matches to recently edited Wikipedia pages. Below, you can see the before and after results for the recency reordering. On the one hand, intent isn’t as important as practical application, and the current feasible applications of BOSS seem somewhat similar to what Google and Microsoft offer. Its current feature set seems ideal for a comprehensive site search implementation, for example. However, intent does become important when considering how Yahoo! might evolve the program, and they say this is only the first phase of planned features. They say they’re looking to the developer community to determine what their roadmap should be. Yahoo! is explicitly looking to disrupt the search market by helping search startups overcome some of those obstacles inherent in the search business. They reduce the burden of crawling and the limitations caused by a lack of historical data by providing search results, and they allow for innovation by enabling developers to create their own ranking, look and feel, and mashups. Will BOSS power innovation in search? Those who are truly looking to innovate in the search space may feel that they need access to the raw content of a web index, not simply to the results. Hakia, who is a satisfied customer of the API, isn’t replacing their crawl. They need to crawl the web themselves to implement their natural search innovations using what they term “QDEXing“. Hakia president Melek Pulatkonak told me that “Hakia views the BOSS initiative as a means of accelerating our efforts to QDEX the entire Web, and therefore become the first full-scale semantic search engine. Yahoo! Search BOSS is the best partnership offer for developments like the one in Hakia, and is an unprecedented initiative in the market." (It remains to be seen if Microsoft’s acquisition of Powerset will speed up or slow down competitor Powerset’s roadmap.) Me.dium is also primarily using its own index, and in any case, isn’t looking to topple Google. As Chris Sherman points out, they’re more akin to StumbleUpon. However, both implementations highlight ways the API could help developers try innovative things in search, particularly if those innovations revolve around ranking and display. What’s the revenue model? In addition to search startups needing more access than BOSS provides, they also may want to control their revenue stream. While BOSS isn’t launching with ads, and developers can monetize any way they want for now, Yahoo! does plan to require Yahoo! ads be displayed beside the search results at some point. Yahoo! told me that “Over the next several months, a BOSS monetization capability, using Yahoo! search advertising and potentially other models, will be made available for partners and developers to create a search revenue stream for their business.” At that point, developers will be locked into using whatever Yahoo! provides. Are there other options? Yahoo! isn’t the only company looking to spur innovation by making large-scale data available. For instance, CommonCrawl says that their mission is to "build, maintain and make widely available a comprehensive crawl of the Internet for the purpose of enabling a new wave of innovation, education and research" and plan to operate as a non-profit. This project isn’t aimed at powering search innovation specifically, but rather at the entire realm of information fields. Gil Elbaz, founder of CommonCrawl, told me, "we think a common crawl of the web will be a great resource for anyone trying to innovate in information-related research." Alexa also makes a web index available, although it’s much smaller than Yahoo!’s and isn’t free. Yahoo! is providing a separate API for academic use. For now, the data available is the same as the public API but will provide more results per API request (1000 results rather than 50). A “custom” API is still in the works for which Yahoo! will work more closely with partners. Uses other than consumer search? I asked Yahoo! how they felt about other uses of this API. For instance, search marketers can think of many tools that could be powered by search results data. For now, the terms of service requires the data be used only for consumer web search. “You are permitted to use the Services only for the purpose of incorporating and displaying Web Search Results from such Services as part of a Search Product deployed on your Web site (“Your Offering”). A “Search Product” means a service which provides a response to a search query, keyword or other request served from an index or indexes of data related to Web pages generated, in whole or in part, by the application of an algorithmic search engine.” They’ll be monitoring use by looking at things such as how many queries resulted in clicks. However, they said that they were looking at potentially making other data offerings available that may be of interest to SEOs. Overall, this is an interesting idea from Yahoo! Can it shake up the status quo market share? I’m not so sure about that. But it is another sign of Yahoo!’s commitment to the developer community and of their willingness to think creatively about market share (although they may be thinking more about ways to find distribution channels beyond toolbar deals than they are about helping competing search engines be successful).

Tutorial: Create a Yahoo BOSS powered Site Search Engine Tutorial: Create a Yahoo BOSS powered Site Search Engine Amit Agarwal By Amit Agarwal Published on 2008-11-27 PUBLISHED IN: GOOGLE CUSTOM SEARCH - YAHOO yahoo-boss While it is extremely easy to implement Google Custom Search in your site, the Google service is kind of limited in the sense that you little control over the search results that display on your site. You can neither reorder search results nor can you include additional information in the search pages. Enter Yahoo BOSS, a service overcomes most limitations of Google Custom Search. It lets you display search results in the format you like, or add image thumbnails to your results page (similar to Cuil) or you can even hide certain web pages from appearing in search results. If you like to experiment with Yahoo! Boss for your own site search, here’s a quick tutorial to help you get started. Just apply for an AppID and then replace the appropriate values in the following PHP file. // Get the Yahoo BOSS AppID from https://developer.yahoo.com/wsregapp/ define (‘APP_ID’, ‘YOUR_APPID_HERE’); // Restrict site search to your own domain - replace labnol.org $query = $_GET [‘q’] . ‘+site:labnol.org’; // Get search results from Yahoo BOSS as an XML* $API = ’http://boss.yahooapis.com/ysearch/web/v1/’; $request = $API . $query .‘?format=xml&appid=‘. APP_ID; $ch = curl_init($request); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0); $xml = simplexml_load_string (curl_e xec($ch)); // Display search results - Title, Date and URL. foreach ($xml->resultset_web->result as $result) { print ’’.$result->title.’ ’; } *You can directly use file_get_contents() instead of the cURL library but some web hosts (like Dreamhost) do not allow fopen on external files. Tweak Your Search Results These results (like Gmail, Google Chrome, India) are presented in a plain vanilla interface but you could easily wrap them in a WordPress plug-in that displays addition information next to search results like associated thumbnail images, tags, number of comments, etc. To see all this in action, check out the gmail search on TechCrunch. Ads in Yahoo! Boss Yahoo! has promised that they’ll brings ads to Yahoo! Boss so you will be able to monetize site search in the same manner as AdSense for Search. It may however be limited to US residents only since you require a valid SSN to gain entry into the Yahoo Ad Network. Update: Make sure that you use the ClickURL value for the HREF value in your search results and not the direct URL as this is a requirement according to their BOSS API terms of use. PUBLISHED IN: GOOGLE CUSTOM SEARCH - YAHOO