How To Search/Yahoo

Yahoo! Search Purpose: "Our mission is to be the most essential global Internet service for consumers and businesses." Audience: All Internet users. Scope: The Internet. All documents that Yahoo's web crawling software can process. Refresh Rate: Constant Other Information: It is important to differentiate between Yahoo! Search, which this page is about, and the Yahoo web site directory. Yahoo! Search is a fully automated Internet search engine. (Although it seems to incorporate a few "Yahoo! Shortcuts," listed below, that may be human indexed.) On the other hand each web page in the web site directory is categorized by humans, it is not automated. Boolean Operators BooleanOperator Syntax Example AND {Default} skunk tomato OR OR skunk OR tomato NOT - skunk -tomato Other Operators Syntax Example Description "" "skunk smell removal" phrase search + skunk +and tomato include a common word that Google usually does not search Search Fields Yahoo! refers to the following as "Search Meta Words." Syntax Example Description site: site:wikibooks.org "how to search" searches web pages that have the specified domain hostname: hostname:en.wikibooks.org "how to search" searches web pages that have the specified hostname link: link:wikibooks.org searches web pages that link to the specified URL url: url:http://www.wikibooks.org searches the Yahoo index for the specified URL; this should return either 0 or 1 results inurl: inurl:wikibooks searches web pages that contain the specified text (wikibooks) somewhere in the URL intitle: intitle:wikibooks searches web pages that have the specified word in the title Search Shortcuts Yahoo refers to the following as Yahoo! Shortcuts. Some have yet to be listed in this wikibook. When typing a shortcut it looks just like a normal word search. The difference shows up when the search results appear. Below advertisements and above the numbered search results there will be an entry with a red Yahoo Y next to it. This shortcut entry may provide an answer, if using the calculator or dictionary, or it may link to further pages with the answer. Shortcut Description Example Further Information Calculator Allows calculations to be done from the search box. 45*12 45*12 Definitions Defines words define numeral define numeral Other Features Yahoo! Search also allows a number of searches which can only be done using templates on their web pages. These can be found in the advanced search. These include file format (doc, html, pdf, ppt, rss, txt, xls), search language, safesearch filter, and country. Other features not directly impacting search results include number of results listed per page.