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Yahoo Search Engine
The new Yahoo! Search offers these services and tools
to help you find whatever you're looking for, faster and easier
than ever.
Yahoo offers the following different types of searches:
Web Search:
Yahoo uses a powerful search algorithm powered by its crawler, Yahoo
Slurp, to list webpages related to keywords entered by the user.
News Search:
This section is used to search for news stories, pictures, and audio/video.
Image Search:
The Yahoo image search is used find photos and illustrations from
all over the Web. It lists images by crawling the image src tag
and lists them.
Directory Search:
It lists webpages from the yahoo directory, related to keywords
entered by the user
Yellow Pages Search:
It is used to search for local businesses serving a particular area.
Product Search:
This search is used to find product reviews and prices on the web.
Search Tips
• Try to use specific words rather than general words. For
example: If you are searching for the history of books, use “history
of books” rather than “books”.
• Avoid using words with more than one meaning.
• For including and excluding words, use + and -.
• You can also use logical words like OR, AND.
• To search for an exact prase, include quotation marks.
Search Meta Words
Here is a list of special keywords that give you results unique
to that special keyword instruction. You can enter these Meta words
directly into the Yahoo! Search box.
• site: this allows one to find all documents
within a particular domain and all it's subdomains.
Example: site:searchenginegenie.com
• hostname: this allows one to find all documents from a particular
host only.
Example: hostname:autos.yahoo.com
• link: this allows one to find documents that link to a particular
url.
Example: link:http://www. searchenginegenie.com/
• url: this alllows one to find a specific document in yahoo’s
index.
Example: url:http://www. searchenginegenie.com/links.html
• inurl: this allows one to find a specific keyword as part
of indexed urls.
Example: inurl:bulgarian
• intitle: this allows one to find a specific keyword as part
of the indexed titles.
Example: intitle:Bulgarian
Yahoo purchased Overture (the leading Pay Per Click
provider) in the middle of 2003. By purchasing Overture, Yahoo now
owns AltaVista and AllTheWeb (which were purchased by Overture earlier
in the same year). By February 2004, Yahoo stopped showing Google
results on their SERPs( Search Engine Result Pages) and started
using results based on their own database. The search results were
now powered not only by Yahoo’s algorithm, but also by technologies
from AltaVista, AllTheWeb and Inktomi.
