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Searching the Internet From Your My Yahoo! Page

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Searching the Web

The World Wide Web is a big place. We're all searching for something these days—cheap flights, reviews of a great restaurant, or a long-lost schoolmate. Barely a day goes by when we don't look something up on the Internet, either at work or at home. With Yahoo! Search, you can find what you're looking for quickly and easily.

To get started, try one of the most common types of search—a text search.

 

Here’s How

  1. In My Yahoo! with the Web option selected, type one or more words in the search box, then click the Web Search button.

    Select Web, type one or more words, then click the Web Search button.Enlarge

    Yahoo! Search looks throughout the Web for web sites that mention the text you typed and then displays the results in your browser with links to the sites.

    Yahoo! Search displays web sites that contain the words you typed.Enlarge

    A results page can include the following:

    • Related words or phrases—shown after the Also try label. These are suggested words that might pertain to the type of information you are looking for. Simply click a word or phrase to begin another search.

    • Sponsor results—shown as web sites on a colored background. The owners of these web sites have paid to have their sites appear at the top, bottom, or side of a results page.

    • Web search results—shown as web sites on a white background. These web sites appear in the order in which they relate to your search text, with the most relevant appearing at the top.

  2. To view a web page, click its link.

    Click a web site's link to go to its page.

  3. To view additional result pages, click a page number or the Next link at the bottom of the page.

    Click a page number or Next to go to another results page.

 

What’s Next

If you have it on, give the Search Assist a try (its on by default). Search Assist is Yahoo!’s latest innovation to help you effortlessly find what you’re looking for. As you type, it opens below the search box and offers search terms and phrases. If you like, click a suggestion. Without clicking the Search button, Yahoo! returns search results.

Search Assist opens below the search box. Click a suggestion to refine your search.

To turn Search Assist off, click More Options, click Search Assist, click the Off option, then click the I’m Done button.

 
 
 

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