It looks like something broke since the author wrote the article, and he reverted to using Google. Example links lead to blank results, while the search box on top of every page of the web site mentioned in the article leads to Google-powered search results. Anybody have luck with integrating YBoss results?

I used YBOSS on a prototype of a firefox extension - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9986

It works ok, the main issues are:

* the results are not as good as yahoo's real results

* about 10% of the time the yahoo click-through url is incorrect (meaning instead of seeing the result you see a yahoo error page).

I've since rewritten it to use Google's "AJAX" API (which is just JSON). Check out the flash section for how to get the JSON directly.

Disclaimer: Putting on my Yahoo! Developer Network hat

We'd love to hear more feedback like this. If we don't know that something isn't quite right we can't fix it. If there are things we can improve for you unless you tell us we can't do them.

I've emailed you hopefully we can work through this list and get them all fixed :)

Seems to work for me...

When I do a search for the string "test" (without quotes), the returned JSON's 6th entry is

  Student's t-test - Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

When you visit the clickurl Yahoo's servers return 403 Forbidden

Search for "javascript", the returned JSON's 4th entry is:

  About JavaScript - MDC

For which the yahoo clickurl serves an invalid SSL certificate.

I haven't had issues getting the JSON results, but with visiting the results I get these errors a significant amount of the time, which ruins the experience of having a faster search interface in your browser. (I've responded to the Yahoo engineer with these examples as well)