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which proves the anecdote comment above is probably BS

That's a little much. They do offer a Search API [1] (well, until Friday). Just not terribly surprising it wasn't any better than Bing (since it is Bing).

[1] https://developer.yahoo.com/boss/search/

Indeed. BOSS was available until recently; the XML API for search is available as a replacement.

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