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You are writing a comment about Yahoo's Build your Own Search Service in Django, here is a quick summary:

This is a fairly simple look at how to use Yahoo's BOSS Mashup Framework with Django. In the tutorial we create a simple news search.

You are responding to this comment written by Will Larson on February 11th 2009, 10:05.

It kind of depends on what you mean. If you want to mix your own results with Yahoo!'s results, then that is definitely possible. Just mix 'em in as you please. If you want to use the mashup framework to access your pages, that is more complicated.

Fundamentally the mashup framework is just a wrapper around an API hosted by Yahoo, so you would need to recreate a similar API for your pages, and then you would need to make the query syntax and result schema match the current API's syntax/schema or modify the mashup code to work with your new syntax/schema, at which point you're probably better off rolling your own wrapper library for your own system.

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