Yahoo has many ways to help you find want you want easily. Here are 23 Power Search Tips to make your Yahoo Experience easier and more fun. These Search Tips were found on the Following Yahoo web pages http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/basics/basics-04.html http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/tips/tips-01.html 1 - site Yahoo will restrict its search to only find results from the Target Domain * help site:www.yahoo.com Will Find Pages about Help 2 - link Lists web pages that have links to Target Web Page * link:http://autos.yahoo.com/ Return Links to http://autos.yahoo.com/ 3 - intitle Will only Return Pages that contain that word in the Title * intitle:search 4 - inurl: Will only Return Pages that contain that word in the URL * inurl:search 5 - hostname Find all documents from a specific host only. * hostname:autos.yahoo.co 6- URL find a specific document in Yahoo's Index * URL:http://edit.autos.yahoo.com/repair/tree/0.html 7 - Include words Yahoo will generally search for all documents that contain all of your words. Certain words like it, in how will always be excluded by Yahoo. To ensure yahoo includes all of your words use a Plus sign(+) in front of your word. +the agony +of +it +all 8 - Exclude words Excluding Words: To exclude words, type a minus sign - in front of them. No pages containing those words will show up in your results. For example, if you want to see pages about dogs with no mention of poodles, search for "dogs -poodles." 9 - Either /Or You can search for england or france 10 - Exact Phrase To search for an exact phrase, just put quotation marks around two or more words. "mike makler" 11 - Maps Maps St Louis will return a Map of St Louis 12 - Weather Weather St Louis will return current St Louis Weather 13 - Dictionary Define Dog will return the dictionary defination of Dog (Works with any word in English) 14 - News Type in News and Topic
news Yankees will return News about the Yankees
news Search engines will return news about search engines 15 - Yellow Page Listings Type in a 5 Digit Zip code to get a Yellow Page Listing 16 - Airport Information For Latest airport conditions ohare airport will return conditions at OHare Airport 17 - Flight Status For flight departure, arrival and status Information, search on the airline name or airline code and flight number. United 63 will return the status of united flight 63 18 - Gas Prices For Gas Prices type in the word gas and a Zip code gas 63031 19 - Package Tracking To check the status of packages shipped via UPS, Federal Express or the United States Postal Service. 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. 20 - Sports Score To get the Latest Score for your favorite team type in your team name and the word scores Yankees scores will return scores on the Yankees baseball scores will return all baseball scores 21 - Stock Quote Type in the word quote and the stock symbol Quote IBM 22 - Traffic Report Type in the city and the word traffic St Louis Traffic 23 UPC Codes To find Information such as the manufacturer for any product, search on the UPC bar code. The bar codes are the patterns of black and white bars and numbers that are used to uniquely identify a product. In case you are confused I currently live in the St Louis Metro Area but I was born and raised in New York City so I bleed Yankee Pin Stripes. |
