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As we mentioned earlier today, Yahoo! has rolled out Yahoo Search BOSS: the Build your Own Search Service APIs that make much of Yahoo's core content widely available. Though the various offerings involved are not open source, this open content is potentially interesting to open source developers working on the web. Here are some details about what's inside.

You may not have heard of Wikia Search before. A relatively new project from the Wikipedia folks, they've entered the search-engine fray with an attitude that is just about as open as it is possible to be. Not only is their underlying software open source (under BSD licenses), but the very search results themselves are as open to editing as Wikipedia pages.