Web Search Engines

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General InformationYahoo! Search
Company Logo
OverviewYahoo! Search is owned by Yahoo!, Inc. and is currently the second largest search engine on the web.
Website URLsearch.yahoo.com
Website Submission Yes, siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/au/free/submit
Wikipedia Articleen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo_Search
Web Site Blogysearchblog.com
Customer Supporthelp.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/search/search_support.html
RankingYahoo! Search
Ranking Algorithm
Search FeaturesYahoo! Search
Audio Search Yes, audio.search.yahoo.com
Blog Search Yes, ysearchblog.com
Book Search No
Career Search Yes, hotjobs.yahoo.com/jobs
Desktop Search Yes, us.config.toolbar.yahoo.com/yds
Dictionary SearchNA, only in search results
Events Search Yes, upcoming.yahoo.com
Finance Search Yes, finance.yahoo.com/search
Forum Search No
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Health Search Yes, health.yahoo.com
Image Search Yes, images.search.yahoo.com
Local Search Yes, local.yahoo.com
Map Search Yes, maps.yahoo.com
Mobile Search Yes, mobile.yahoo.com
News Search Yes, news.search.yahoo.com/news
Patent Search No
People Search Yes, people.yahoo.com
Phrase Search Yes
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Product Search (Shopping) Yes, search.yahoo.com/products
Questions and Answers Search Yes, answers.yahoo.com
Real Estate Search Yes, realestate.yahoo.com
Recipe Search Yes, In main results
Scholar Search No
Search Alerts Yes, alerts.yahoo.com
Search Creative Commons Yes, search.yahoo.com/cc
Search in Categorized Directories Yes, search.yahoo.com/dir
Search Public Source Code Yes, developer.yahoo.com
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Semantic SearchFor some of the search queries. Yahoo open search platform at tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/open.html includes semantic web format
Travel Search Yes, travel.yahoo.com
TV Listings Search Yes, tv.yahoo.com/listings
University Search Yes, education.yahoo.com
US Government Search No
Vehicles Search Yes, autos.yahoo.com
Video Search Yes, video.search.yahoo.com
Weather Search Yes, weather.yahoo.com
Search ResultsYahoo! Search
Browser Toolbar Yes, toolbar.yahoo.com
Highlights of Relevant Phrases Yes
Cached Pages Yes
Related Searches Yes, Search Assist and auto suggest
Thumbnails Preview No, but It's is available using Mozilla Firefox extension - ackroyd.de/googlepreview
Translate Searches Yes, babelfish.yahoo.com
Advanced Search OperatorsYahoo! Search
Logical (Boolean) operations Yes, AND OR NOT
Operator [-] - exclude Terms from search result (-). Attaching a minus sign immediately before a word indicates that you do not want pages that contain this word... learn more Yes
Operator [*] - search with wildcard (*)... learn more Yes
Operator [+] - search exactly as is (+)... learn more Yes
Operator [after:] - search for modified after a given date. For example after:31/12/1999
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Operator [before:] - search for modified before a given date. For Example before:31/12/1999
Operator [inurl:] - restrict the results to documents containing that word in the url.... learn more Yes
Operator [link:] - webpages that have links to the specified URL (link:).... learn more Yes
Operator [site:] - search within a whole class of sites (site:).... learn more Yes

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