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Yahoo Services and Specialty Searches<br />

News: Yahoo News headlines are entirely generated using a computer algorithm<br />

that scours approximately 4500 worldwide news sources. Yahoo News also offers<br />

international editions for France, Germany, India, Italy, Spain, and several o<strong>the</strong>r<br />

countries. For details on Yahoo News, see <strong>the</strong> news search engine section below.<br />

Images: <strong>the</strong> Yahoo image database contains more than a billion images and<br />

includes content from Yahoo news and movies. The advanced search options for<br />

images permit users to limit <strong>the</strong> search by size, color, and image type. Users of<br />

Yahoo Search can add <strong>the</strong> Image tab to <strong>the</strong> left-hand side of <strong>the</strong> main search page.<br />

Video: Yahoo Video search is extremely powerful. I address this option below in <strong>the</strong><br />

video search section.<br />

Translations: Yahoo absorbed AltaVista's Systran translation page (Babelfish) but<br />

without <strong>the</strong> excellent virtual keyboard. Systran provides reasonably decent machine<br />

translations of <strong>web</strong> pages from many European and Asian languages. The<br />

translation page lets you automatically translate a search result, enter any uri you<br />

like, or copy/type text directly onto <strong>the</strong> translation page. If a page appears in <strong>the</strong><br />

results list in one of <strong>the</strong> languages Yahoo translation supports, you will see<br />

[Translate this page] after <strong>the</strong> page title.<br />

Yahoo Babelfish<br />

Yahoo Language Tools<br />

http://babelfish.yahoo.com/<br />

http://tools.search.yahoo.com/language/<br />

Mobile SMS Search: This is a new service that is different from <strong>the</strong> SMS text<br />

messaging that has been available at Yahoo for some time, i.e., Yahoo Messenger.<br />

The new SMS at Yahoo permits queries using mobile technology. Yahoo's SMS<br />

number is 92466 (which spells Yahoo on most phones). Here is Yahoo's explanation<br />

of <strong>the</strong>ir service, which is presently only available to US Cingular, Sprint and Verizon<br />

subscribers:<br />

Right now you can search for any local information by sending a query with your<br />

location or zip code like: "pizza 94025," you can get a stock quote with: "s yhoo,"<br />

wea<strong>the</strong>r information: lOW 94025," dictionary definitions: "d garrulous," horoscopes:<br />

"h aquarius," WiFi hotspots: "wifi 94123," and more are coming. Hence typing "w"<br />

and <strong>the</strong> ZIP code get you a short wea<strong>the</strong>r forecast.'<br />

Yahoo Mobile Search<br />

http://mobile.yahoo.com/search<br />

Directory: As with Google, Yahoo's <strong>web</strong> directory uses <strong>the</strong> Open Directory Project's<br />

collection but <strong>the</strong> two versions are not identical. For example, if I search <strong>the</strong> directory<br />

for <strong>the</strong> keyword java, Yahoo presents multiple directory categories:<br />

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