Searching From Verizon Yahoo! Toolbar

Searching With Assistance Setting Search Preferences

Searching With Assistance

You’ve most likely searched for information through your Web browser using a search engine, such as Verizon Yahoo! Search. Just type a keyword or so, then click the search button. The results display in the browser page. Verizon Yahoo! Toolbar offers the same basic steps...with assistance.

 

Here’s How

  1. Type one or more keywords in the Toolbar’s search box.

    Type keywords in the search box.

    While you type, (and if the search preferences allow), the area below the search box opens to provide assistance in the form of suggestions, additional search engines, pages last visited, and more. The letters you’re typing might even cause auto-complete to fill in the word for you.

    As you type, the Toolbar offers assistance.

  2. You can use any of these options or ignore them.

    • To accept the auto-completed term, click the Web Search button to see the results in a Verizon Yahoo! Search page.

      Click the Web Search button to accept the auto-completed term.

      If you don’t want to accept the auto-complete suggestion, keep typing or press the Delete key to erase the highlighted text before clicking the Web Search button.

    • Clicking a suggestion preceded with a spyglass returns Verizon Yahoo! Search results for that suggestion.

      Clicking a suggestion preceded by a spyglass returns results for that suggestion.

      Tip: If you click a suggestion with a time to the right (search history), you’ll see results similar to those you saw in an earlier search on the same term.

    • Clicking a search engine returns that engine’s results for your term. For example, clicking the Flickr search engine on the word "gardenias" results in Flickr displaying search results (images) for gardenias.

      Clicking a search engine returns that engine’s results.

      Clicking the Flickr search engine returns search results in Flickr.

    • Clicking a site name opens the Web page for that site. The suggested sites are retrieved from your IE Favorites and your Yahoo! Bookmarks.

      Clicking a site name opens the Web page for the site.

 

What’s Next

You can control what assistance the Toolbar provides while searching.


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