Monday, June 15, 2009

Search Categories in Yahoo

To change the type of search you click a search category link ins the search box and make the results you see even more specific. Selecting one of the search category links gives Yahoo! Search instructions about what specific kind of search results you would like to see:
Yahoo Images: Searches for images, photos, illustrations, and icons from all over the Web and presents results ranked by algorithm.
Yahoo Video: Searches for videos from all over the Web and presents results ranked by algorithm.
Yahoo Directory: Directory search results are sites from the Yahoo! Directory and are ranked by algorithm. The Directory is a human-created and maintained library of web sites organized into categories and subcategories. Sites that participate in Directory Submit pay for an expedited review for potential inclusion in the Directory.
Yahoo Local: Local search results might contain listings that paid for placement. Those listings are separated into the Sponsored Businesses and/or Featured Listings sections of the page. Listings within the Local results might have financial relationships with Yahoo! but have not paid for placement.
Yahoo News: News search results are sites derived from multiple sources that you can rank either by algorithm or date.
Yahoo Shopping: Yahoo! Shopping helps you find products and compare prices from different merchants selling the same item. Yahoo! Shopping does this in part by searching through millions of products offered by thousands of third party merchants. Most merchants included in Yahoo! Shopping pay for placement of their product offers in resulting listings. In general, the order in which Yahoo! Shopping search results are displayed is determined by an algorithmic ranking and relevance is a key factor used, although payment by participating merchants along with other factors can affect the order of Yahoo! Shopping search results. Some Yahoo! Shopping search results may include products from merchants that submit content to Yahoo! Shopping for review and inclusion in the Yahoo! Shopping database. These merchants pay for inclusion of their content in the Yahoo! Shopping database, but participation in this paid inclusion program does not guarantee placement or ranking of search results. To add comprehensiveness, some Yahoo! Shopping search results may include free results generated from millions of web pages discovered, crawled and indexed by the Yahoo! Shopping web crawl process

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