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.