yahoo! search jonathan glick – sr. manager yahoo! search glickj@yahoo-inc.com sept. 28, 2004

Yahoo! Search

Jonathan Glick – Sr. Manager Yahoo! Searchglickj@yahoo-inc.com

Sept. 28, 2004

Yahoo! Search: The Complete Package

•Great WebSearch•Fresh, Comprehensive & Relevant•Partner feeds to add hard-to-crawl content•Advanced query support•RSS feed identification

•Search Verticals•News•Image•Audio/Video

•Inside Yahoo!•Access to highly-relevant data from the Yahoo! network

•Search Shortcuts•Direct question answering•Links to deep-web resources

Great Web Search + Deep Web Access +Yahoo! Resources: In One Place

Search

Partner Data Feeds: Deep Web Content

Find and Save RSS Feeds

Strong Advanced Query Syntax

•Booleans: AND, OR, NOT

•(Support for (nested)) operators and phrasing “”

•MetaWord Support:link: linkdomain: hostname:domain: inurl: intitle:

•Unlimited query term count

•Filter by Filetypehtml pdf xls pptdoc xml txt

•Filter by Date

•International: 36 languages24 countries/regions

Inside Yahoo!

Shortcuts: Direct Question Answering

Shortcuts: Deep Web Databases

http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts/index.html#news

Yahoo! Vertical Searches

News: 5MM Articles8,000 Sources47 LanguagesUpdated every 90 secondsHTML, Atom, and RSS support

Images: Advanced searching:File FormatSizeType (Photo, Graphics, etc.)

Multimedia (Audio/Video)Available on AltaVista and AllTheWebAudio and Video indexingAdvanced Search support

Thank You

Contextual Abstracts: Question Answering