TechCrunch’s New Search Engine: Powered by Yahoo BOSS

About a week ago we soft-launched a new search engine for TechCrunch, the first to be built and deployed using Yahoo's new BOSS Custom technology (otherwise known as "BOSS vertical lens", as Yahoo called it in its announcement today). The new TechCrunch Search is considerably more powerful than WordPress's default search capabilities. For one, you can now search across our entire network of English-speaking blogs (which includes CrunchGear, MobileCrunch, TechCrunch UK, TechCrunchIT, Gillmor Gang and others in addition to TechCrunch) with just one query. Results also include pages from CrunchBase about notable companies, people, and financial organizations in the technology sector. And perhaps most crucially, results are no longer listed in dumb reverse chronological order but actually rise to the top based on their relevance to your query (Yahoo's relevance model, however, has indeed been tuned to highlight our freshest content about particular subjects, such as the iPhone or Facebook ).