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What is Yahoo? Searching Yahoo! Setting Search Options Search Results Browsing Yahoo! The Menubar Navigating Around Quick Questions? If you have questions about Yahoo!, check and see if they're answered in the Frequently Asked Questions list! What is Yahoo? Yahoo! is a searchable, browsable hierarchical index of the Internet. For anyone who cares, here's what yahoo really means. Yahoo! was started by David Filo and Jerry Yang, self-proclaimed yahoos. Today, Yahoo! is a public company providing the Yahoo! service. Searching vs. Browsing Searching Yahoo! If you know exactly what you're looking for, try using Yahoo! search. Specify a keyword or set of keywords, and Yahoo! will search its entire database to find listings that match the keys you provide. You'll find a search form or search button at the top of every Yahoo! page. Setting Search Options Unless you specify otherwise, Yahoo! will search categories, titles, and comments to find listings that contain all of your keywords. Also, Yahoo! will not pay attention to case (e.g., "Dow Jones" is treated just like "dow jones") and it will stop after it finds 100 matches. If you want to customize your search, you'll find several options on the Yahoo! Search page: search Yahoo's listings, Usenet newsgroups, or Email addresses; specify whether you want matches to contain all of your keywords or at least one of your keywords; specify whether your keywords should be considered as substrings or whole words; control the number of matches displayed per page. Search Results Yahoo! searches retrieve three different kinds of information: Yahoo! categories that match your keywords, End-sites that match your keywords, The Yahoo! categories where those end-sites are listed. This way, you can choose to go directly to retrieved sites, or browse around relevant Yahoo! categories for related information. Which leads us to the next topic... Browsing Yahoo! If you don't have a particular internet site in mind, but want to "surf" around to see what's out there, Yahoo! is the place to start. From the top page, just click on a topic you want to browse and you're on your way! The Menubar From Yahoo!'s top page menubar, you'll find links to several of the Yahoo! Features: What's New, What's Cool, Today's News (updated hourly!), and More Yahoos. To return to the top page from any other Yahoo! page, just click on "Yahoo!" in the menubar. Also, you can choose from the following menubar functions from any Yahoo! page: Write Us : a form interface to mail feedback and suggestions to the Yahoo! administrators. If your browser does not support forms, please send us email at webmaster@yahoo-inc.com. Add URL : to submit your own URL to be added to Yahoo!. We will validate the URL that is submitted and incorporate it into our hierarchy. Info : for help and information about Yahoo!. From here you can get to information about Yahoo! Corporation including announcements, press releases, contact information and advertising information; help using Yahoo! (this page); the Yahoo! FAQ , and an explanation of the Yahoo! Features. Navigating Around Throughout Yahoo!, categories are marked in bold text while end-sites are listed in plain text. To move down into the subject hierarchy, simply click on a category and the next level of the hierarchy will be displayed. To move up in the hierarchy, click on the appropriate category in the page's heading: e.g., to move up one level from Business and Economy:Markets and Investments:Stocks, just click on "Markets and Investments." To move up two levels, click on "Business and Economy."

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