The Five Things That Yahoo! Search Can Do But Not Google

linkingpro · #1 (**permalink**) 11-02-2007, 04:56 AM

The Five Things That Yahoo! Search Can Do But Not Google

Google is the world’s favorite web search engine but there are a couple of cool things that you can do only in Yahoo!. Take a look:

1. Compose emails from the Yahoo! search box.

Type !mail abc@xyz.com in the Yahoo! search box and it will automatically compose a new email message for you in Yahoo! mail.

yahoo song lyrics search 2. Get Lyrics of any song or your favorite artist.

Type madonna lyrics (for lyrics of Madonna songs) or madonna material girl lyrics (for lyrics of a particular song)

3. Specifiy the order of search keywords in queries

Say you want only web pages where word x comes before y but not vice versa, then just put the search query in Square Brackets. An example:

[Sylvester Stallone] - will only return web pages where the word Sylvester appear before Stallone.

search wikipedia flickr ebay 4. Search your favorite websites from Yahoo! itself.

For instance, type !wiki google in Yahoo! search box to search Google in Wikipedia.com. Other popular shortcuts are !ebay, !amazon, and !flickr. You can also execute these from the Firefox search box without changing the default search engine.

5. linkdomain - An undocumented Yahoo Web search operator.

A quick question - Can you find the number of articles on Wikipedia website that link to CNN.com ? It’s almost impossible to get this data from Google but you can do so quite easily in Yahoo! with the incredibly useful linkdomain operator. The answer is:

linkdomain:cnn.com site:wikipedia.org

Or take another example - How many stories on TechCrunch actually link to the PayPerPost, Arrington’s favorite topic. The answer here is:

site:techcrunch.com linkdomain

ayperpost.com

Courtesy: The Five Things That Yahoo! Search Can Do But Not Google | India Inc | Digital Inspiration

titaniumhijau · #2 (**permalink**) 11-02-2007, 05:46 AM

Erk, i never know about that. Really we can compose email from that yahoo search box? I never know and never try it. Maybe i can try this time and see if its happen or not..

linkingpro · #3 (**permalink**) 11-02-2007, 06:38 AM

I too dint know about it.just now read the post accidentally

descorpio · #4 (**permalink**) 11-03-2007, 05:00 AM

well that was good. I was not aware of most of the news there. Let me try out and come out with the expected results. They are very valuable. Atleast in this Yahoo overshadowed Google.

linkingpro · #5 (**permalink**) 11-03-2007, 07:38 AM

Yeah.Atleast there is something that makes yahoo better than google

XTreMe · #6 (**permalink**) 11-03-2007, 07:44 AM

these things makes yahoo more better than google and i also tried many songs to search on goole but i didnot find them and i finally got them from yahoO.

linkingpro · #7 (**permalink**) 11-03-2007, 07:53 AM

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Originally Posted by XTreMe

these things makes yahoo more better than google and i also tried many songs to search on goole but i didnot find them and i finally got them from yahoO.

Now theres another one which Yahoo overtakes Google in......

**Zafar Ahmed** · #8 (**permalink**) 11-04-2007, 10:45 AM

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Originally Posted by gurumoorthy88

The Five Things That Yahoo! Search Can Do But Not Google

A quick question - Can you find the number of articles on Wikipedia website that link to CNN.com ? It’s almost impossible to get this data from Google but you can do so quite easily in Yahoo! with the incredibly useful linkdomain operator. The answer is:

linkdomain:cnn.com site:wikipedia.org

Courtesy: The Five Things That Yahoo! Search Can Do But Not Google | India Inc | Digital Inspiration

I wish this was possible for every website to find the number of articles which links to a website, it would have been something new.