Yahoo Help

Have you read the General Search Information yet?

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.

The following is an example of the Yahoo Search form:

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