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Links to advanced searching
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Yahoo
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Home page |
www.yahoo.com |
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Will search in… |
Yahoo Search Engine
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Default search |
AND |
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Case sensitive |
No |
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Natural language queries |
No |
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Spell check |
No |
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Translates pages into another language |
No |
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SYNTAX |
Yahoo USA |
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Find pages that have one or more of these words |
dog cat
or dog OR cat
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Find pages that contain all these words |
+dog +cat
Yahoo! dropped support for Boolean AND in 2008. However, AND is default for multiterm queries.
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Find pages that contain the first, but not the last, word |
dog -cat
Yahoo! dropped support for NOT in 2008. Use the minus sign above. |
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Find pages that contain the following exact phrase |
"raining cats and dogs" |
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Find pages that contain these words in near proximity of each other |
No |
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Find pages that contain words that starts with the following letters
(joker-signs, truncation, wildcard) |
dog*
finds "dog", "dogs", "doghouse" etc. |
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Nesting (Use of parentheses) |
No |
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FIELD SEARCH |
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Find pages that have the following http-address (or parts of address) |
url:dog |
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Find pages under the following domain |
site:.com |
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Find pages with http-addresses that contain the following word |
inurl:dog |
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Find pages that contain links to the following address
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All links to one page link:http://autos.yahoo.com/index.html
Links to an entire site: linkdomain:www.pandia.com
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Find pages that contain the follwing word in the title |
intitle:dog |
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Find pages that contain the following text anywhere in the HTML-code |
No |
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Find pages written in a particular language |
No |
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Find pages made in the following time period |
or use advanced menu US/UK/AuNZ/Asia/Canada |
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FIELD SEARCH USENET NEWSGROUPS |
Yahoo USA |
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Find this newsgroup |
No |
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Find this text in the subject field of newsgroup messages |
No |
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Find messages that are written by the following |
No |
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Find messages that are dated… |
No |
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More information on advanced searching |
Yahoo USA advanced search syntax
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Yahoo also provides socalled shortcuts that let you limit your search to one particular database or information source, e.g. dictionary definitions or airport information. Example search queries in italics.
| Airport Information |
ohare airport |
| Aircraft Registration Information (US FAA Registration number) |
N2451F |
| Dictionary Definitions |
define hirsute |
| Encyclopedia Lookup |
caterpillar facts |
| Flight Tracker |
united 63F |
| Hotel Finder |
las vegas hotels |
| ISBN Numbers (price comparison books) |
0764507621 |
| US Maps |
701 first ave sunnyvale ca |
| News headlines |
news election |
| Package Tracking |
For UPS orders, enter the tracking code.
For FedEx shipments, search on "fedex" plus the tracking number.
For USPS tracking numbers, search on "usps" plus the tracking code. |
| US Patents |
patent 6269361 |
| Sports Scores (US baseball, basketball, hockey, or football teams) |
yankees scores |
| US Stock Quotes |
quote yhoo |
| Synonym Finder |
synonym apex |
| Traffic Reports |
dallas traffic |
| US UPC Manufacturer Bar Codes |
071641815056 |
| US Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) |
ZFFYT53A510122724 |
| Weather |
weather boston |
| US Yellow Pages |
starbucks sunnyvale ca |
