| Search Features: 1. Spelling
Yahoo corrects the spelling and looks for the right
form and yours.
For words like color, Yahoo looks for color OR colour. If
you want only colour, use +colour.
2. Truncation/ stemming
Get singular and plural.
Yahoo usually picks up both. Otherwise enter
both with OR. Should use parentheses (A OR B)
Get word variants.
Check if Yahoo picked up terms. If not, can enter several with OR.
Should nest terms (A OR B)
3. Quotations
Get full quotation
Use " " to mark words together. Yahoo looks for all words
inside the phrase.
4. Show matches (Cache)
Cached View the
page as it was when Yahoo indexed it.
5. Field Search
May combine fields in a search.
Find pages with some of words
in title
intitle:"fruit salad" apples oranges - looks for fruit salad
in title and the others anywhere.
Find pages with either A or
B in title
intitle:"fruit salad" OR intitle:"fruit compote"
Find pages with some of words
in url
inurl:blog shakespeare - looks for blog in url and shakespeare anywhere.
TIP: To zero in on weblogs look for blog or weblog in the url.
Find pages at a site
site:utoronto.ca - Site can be the host url or just the organization's
domain. Can also use domain:
Find pages at a site with
a term
site:plc.fis.utoronto.ca genealogy
Find pdf documents on a topic
originurlextension:pdf "fruit salad". Yahoo also has ppt,
xls, doc, pdf, xml, rss, rdf. Can combine with other commands.
OR use Advanced Search
Find flash files
originurlextension:swf hockey game. Flash files are often mini-videos
that can be interactive. Good for finding online games and tutorials
6. Backward Search
Find pages that link to a
site
link:http://www.websearchguide.ca -inurl:websearchguide.ca - looks
for links to a page and excludes links from the site itself
OR linkdomain:www.websearchguide.ca
tutorial -- pages that link
to any page at the site and also mention tutorial
OR use siteexplorer.yahoo.com
to analyze inlinks to a site.
7. Language
Language Select
Use Advanced Search to select a certain language or country.
Restrict search Preset choice
through Preferences. Yahoo can search 40 languages.
Translate automatically
available with foreign language results.
8. Images
Find an image
Select the Yahoo Images Tab. Use Options> Advanced Search for more
options.
Use trigger words in web search: image, images, picture, pictures
to query.
9. Date Range
Find pages that have changed
recently: Use Advanced Search to limit the search to one
of the time periods in the pull-down menu.
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