What are Yahoo! Shortcuts?
Yahoo! Shortcuts are special features designed to help you to find answers quickly. Click the title of a specific feature to learn more about it.
Try a search using any of these Yahoo! Shortcuts:
Shortcuts Cheat Sheet
| Airport Information | For the latest airport conditions as well as maps, directions, local weather, and airport terminal maps, where available, search on the airport name or airport code and the term "airport." | |
| Aircraft Registration Information | To find detailed information, such as manufacturer, model, and owner, about aircraft registered in the U.S., search on the FAA Registration number, or "N-number" that can be found on the tail of an airplane. | |
| Area Codes | To find the area code for a city or see what cities are within an area code, search on the area code or city name and "area code. Or to find out where an unfamiliar call's coming from just type the 3-digit area code." | |
| Calculator | Use Yahoo! Search to do basic mathematical calculations. You can add (+), subtract (-), multiply (*), and divide (/). | |
| Dictionary Definitions | To get the primary definition of any word in the American Heritage Dictionary, search on "define" and any English word. | |
| Encyclopedia Lookup | Get the Columbia Encyclopedia entry for a topic by searching on the topic and "facts." | |
| Exchange Rates | To find the exchange rate for a unit of currency or convert one currency to another, search on "convert" and the currency or currencies you would like to convert. | |
| Flight Tracker | For flight departure, arrival, and status information, search on the airline name or airline code and flight number. | |
| Gas Prices | To find the best price on gas in your area, search on "gas" and a location. | |
| Hotel Finder | View the most popular hotels in any location, including the hotel's rating, if available, and lowest price per night, by searching on a location and the type of accommodations desired. | |
| ISBN Numbers | To find the best price on any book, search on the International Standard Book Number. | |
| Local Search | Find business names, numbers, and addresses in any U.S. location by searching on the business category or business name and location. | |
| Maps | To map any U.S. location search on the street address, city, and state or the word "map" and a location. | |
| Movie Showtimes | Find out what's playing at theater near you by searching on "showtimes" and a location. | |
| News | To get current headlines, search on "news" and any topic. | |
| Package Tracking | To check the status of packages shipped via UPS, Federal Express, or the United States Postal Service. For UPS orders, enter the tracking code. For FedEx shipments, search on "fedex" plus the tracking number. For USPS tracking numbers, search on "usps" plus the tracking codet |
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| Patents | For detailed information on any U.S. Patent, search on "patent" and any U.S. patent number. | |
| Sports Scores | To get real time scores for games in progress and stats for recently played games, search on the name of your favorite baseball, basketball, hockey, or football team and "scores." Add the sport name to your search to get the data for your favorite college football and basketball teams. |
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| Stock Quotes | For the latest price, intraday chart, and news headlines, search on "quote" and the ticker symbol for any company traded on the New York, American or NASDAQ stock exchanges. | |
| Synonym Finder | Find synonyms from Roget's Thesaurus by searching on "synonym" and any English word. | |
| Time Zones | To get the current time or determine the time zone for a location search on "time" or "time zone" and the location. | |
| Traffic Reports | For current traffic conditions, search on the location and "traffic." | |
| UPC Codes | To find Information such as the manufacturer for any product, search on the UPC bar code. The bar codes are the patterns of black and white bars and numbers that are used to uniquely identify a product. | |
| Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) | To find useful information about a vehicle's history, search on its 17-character Vehicle Identification Number (VIN). | |
| Weather | For current weather conditions, search on "weather" and a location. | |
| Weights, Measures, and Temperature Converter | To convert any number of metric or Imperial/English units in whole or decimal form, search on "convert" and the units you would like to convert. Use * to indicate degrees." See the Conversion Calculator Page for the list of all supported units. |
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| ZIP Codes | To find the area code for a city or see what cities are within a ZIP code, search on the city name and "zip code." |