• To complete the Yahoo Search form:

  • Enter your search query in the box at the top of the form.
    • Order of terms in the query is unimportant.
    • The words "and" or "or" cannot be used in the query.
  • Use the button settings to find matches according to the following:
    • Click the box marked "Title" to restrict your search to the title of a document.
    • Click the box marked "URL" if you would like to restrict your search to the Uniform Resource Locator of a document. All documents on the Web use URLs to specify the location of files on other servers. URLs include the resource, address of the server, and location of the file.
    • Click the box marked "Comments" to restrict your search to the comments section of a document.
    • Click the box marked "Case Sensitive Matching" if you would like the query to be matched (upper case, lower case letters) exactly.
  • Use the following settings to search using multiple terms:
    • Select the circle marked "At least one of the keys (boolean or)" to search for one term or another.
    • Select the circle marked "All keys (boolean and)" to search for two or more terms.
    • Select the circle marked "All keys as a single string" to search the terms exactly as written.
  • Use the following settings to search terms as written or as a substring:
    • Select the circle marked "Substrings" to allow freer matching of the term(s). Thus, a search for "MIT" would yield hits such as commit, MIT, mitts, Smith,and submit.
    • Select the circle marked "Complete words" to force an exact match of the term(s).
  • Limit the number of hits you would like to see as a result of this search by selecting either 100, 200, 300, or unlimited.
  • Click the "Search" button to begin searching or "Clear" to enter a new query.

NOTE: You cannot perform a search using the example below - you must access the search form first.