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10/06
Top Ten Search Resources
Yahoo (directory) http://www.yahoo.com
Yahoo Directory
http://dir.yahoo.com
Yahoo Search Page
http://www.search.yahoo.com
Yahoo Search
Options
http://search.yahoo.com/search/options
Search
Help
http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/index.html
Advanced Search
http://search.yahoo.com/web/advanced
More
Yahoo Search Tools
http://tools.search.yahoo.com/more
My Yahoo http://my.yahoo.com/
Get Local
(U.S.)
http://dir.yahoo.com/regional/u_s__states/
World Yahoos
link from bottom of http://www.yahoo.com
Are you looking for the top
Web
sites in a particular category?
Yahoo
is the
premier subject directory on the
Web, easy
to navigate and comprehensive
in its listings and additional
features. Unfortunately, however, Yahoo has
buried its link to its directory so that it has is difficult to find;
it can most easily
be located by clicking MORE YAHOOS in left column
on the main Yahoo
page, and choosing Directory.
Most useful for browsing,
general
searching and locating popular sites,
rather
than for specific or academic
searching,
the Yahoo directory presents nearly
two dozen broad categories (such
as computers/ internet, news
and
media,
regional, society and
culture), which
link to a
large
number of subcategories
arranged
in hierarchical order.
Although Yahoo includes an enormous number of web sites,
it is
not ideal for
all Internet searching. It does not search the full text of each page,
and it
frequently lists duplicates. Yahoo also accepts most pages
submitted to
it (or
located by it), and does not rate sites - although it does indicate
ones which
it most recommends.
Yahoo's corporate disclaimer reads: "Other than
determining
categorization
of subject matter at time of listing, Yahoo makes no attempt to review
the
content of sites listed in the directory, and so Yahoo isn't
responsible for the
accuracy, copyright compliance, legality or decency of material
contained in
sites listed in the Yahoo directory."
Yahoo:
Advanced
Searching
But despite its limitations, Yahoo's category index, search options and
dozens
of additional features still merit a high rating.
If you prefer to search for a specific topic rather than
browse through subjects,
or search within a particular category, you will have better results if
you use
Yahoo's Advanced
Search
Options page, rather
than its home page search
engine. Here, you can specify whether to search words or a
phrase (two or
more words grouped together), indicate the file format you are seeking,
choose to filter out adult sites, and search international pages
written in other
languages besides English.
For best results when searching with Yahoo,
type a +
immediately before
a word which must appear, a - (minus) before a word that must
NOT appear.
and quotation marks around a phrase. For example, if
you were searching
for Ganges river you'd type: +"Ganges
river" in
order to indicate that
both
of these words must appear on a page, and must appear together.
Recently, Yahoo also added the OR (in capital letter only!) feature to
its search,
which means you can, for example type Native Americans OR
American
Indians to access sites which use either term. Be
careful however in regard to
using OR with a string of words which may create some
confusion. For example,
if you type Native Americans OR American Indians AND powwows, you
probably don't mean either Native Americans OR American Indian and
powwows? But in this case, you will access site
referring to American Indians,
whether or not related in any way to powwows.
You can also choose to view new listings, or listings
added
after a particular
date, and you can search within titles (use t:yourtitle) or within urls
(use u:url).
Although Yahoo's results listings are brief, they do
show your
keywords
within context, and can be bookmarked, so that you can return to them
in
the future.
You can also access most of Yahoo's additional search
capabilities with
the main search screen. Type map
before your keywords, or weather,
or define,
or news,
or any 5-digit zip code,
and yahoo will conduct the
appropriate search for a map, weather report, dictionary definition,
news
item or yellow pages listing.
You can also search within a particular site, search for links
to a
a particular url and more. See the Yahoo's
advanced search help pages
for information on conducting more specific searches.
Finally, if you have a personal or business web site, you can submit
your
site address (url) to Yahoo on Yahoo's web
site submission page. Submitting
a personal web site is free, but you are not guaranteed inclusion in
Yahoo's
directory. Business listings and guaranteed inclusions cost.
Yahoo:
Additional Features
Of all the online directories, Yahoo provides the largest number of
additional
resources, all easily accessible from the main Yahoo page. Especially
recommended
are the customizable My
Yahoo, for your own
personalized source of News and
Internet Links, Yahooligans
(Yahoo for Kids), YahooMail for your free email
account, and Get
Local, which lists regional
links.
The More
Yahoo Tools page lists additional yahoo search features and
tools,
including travel search, yahoo alerts and the useful Yahoo toolbar.
Also available are complete Yahoos for five countries
(Canada,
United Kingdom,
France, Germany, Japan) as well as complete guides for seven U.S.
cities (New
York, Boston, San Francisco, Chicago, Washington D.C, Los Angeles,
Austin).
Other
useful
Yahoo features include:
More Yahoo Tools
http://tools.search.yahoo.com/more
People
Search
http://people.yahoo.com/
Yahoo Image Search http://www.images.search.yahoo.com/images
Yellow
Pages
http://yp.yahoo.com/
Yahooligans for
Children
http://www.yahooligans.com/
World Yahoos - Click link at bottom
of http://www.yahoo.com
Get Local
(U.S)
http://dir.yahoo.com/regional/u_s__states/
News
Page
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/
Stock Quotes (portfolio
tracking) http://quote.yahoo.com/?u
Yahoo Free Email
http://mail.yahoo.com/
Yahoo
TV
http://tv.yahoo.com/
My Yahoo
(personalized)
http://my.yahoo.com/
Yahoo
Maps
http://maps.yahoo.com/py/maps.py
Yahoo
Chat
http://chat.yahoo.com
Yahoo Small
Business
http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/
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