Internet Search Engines

Yale University Library/Internet Search Engines

Exercise 2: Yahoo

Yahoo! is a good site to begin exploring the internet because it indexes a relatively small number of Web pages and it is arranged by subject.

1. Simple Searching

Fill in the box on the initial Yahoo! screen, and off you go. If Yahoo! finds no matches, it will run the search against Alta Vista. Use boolean operators (AND, OR) in a simple search.

2. Advanced Searching

Click on Options on first screen to invoke the advanced search mode. There are a several different search parameters to be set in advanced searching

3. Browsing Yahoo!

Yahoo! is arranged by subject. This is another way to retrieve a set of web pages on a given topic fairly quickly, especially if it is one of the topics linked off of this first page.

When Yahoo! does not find the any hits in its own indexes, it automatically runs the search against Alta Vista.

On to Exercise 3: Search Engine: Alta Vista

Yale University Library. Internet Search Engines. Prepared September 1996 by Sarah Prown. Please send us your suggestions Copyright (C) 1996, Yale University. All rights reserved. http://www.library.yale.edu/ref/internet-search/yahoo.html