YAHOO

Search EngineCombining Terms Using AND, OR, NOTUsing + and -TruncationAdjacencyProximitySpecifying fields to search
Yahoo!AND, OR; default: ORYesUses *Place quotes around phrasesNoYes

































Yahoo! AND Example: political AND cartoons
finds everything with BOTH words "political" AND "cartoons"
Yahoo! OR Example: political OR cartoons
finds everything with EITHER of the words "political" OR "cartoons"






























Yahoo! Plus Sign "+" (Boolean AND) Example: +Bart Simpson
finds files with "Bart" in them, weighting those with "Simpson" more heavily
Yahoo! Minus Sign "-" (Boolean NOT) Example: Bart -Simpson
finds files with "Bart" in them but without the word "Simpson"
Yahoo! Plus "+" and Minus Sign "-" Example: +animation -Simpsons
finds files with "animation" in them, but NOT "Simpsons"






























Yahoo! truncation Example: dogg*
find everything on "doggerel" and "dogged" and "Snoop Doggy Dogg"






























Yahoo! Adjacency Example: "political cartoons"
finds the phrase where the word "political" precedes the word "cartoons"






























Yahoo! proximity searching is apparently not available.






























Yahoo! TITLE Example: t:NTDB
will find all items with "NTDB" in the HTML TITLE field, or <TITLE>NTDB</TITLE>
Yahoo! URL Example: u:monsanto
will find all items with "monsanto" in the Uniform Resource Locator (URL)