It took me a while to find anything about the Yahoo advanced searching, so I’m posting it here for others from this URL
Advanced Search
With Advanced Web Search, you can find search results that match very specific criteria. The options you choose in an Advanced Web Search only apply to that one search.
To begin, start on the Advanced Web Search page.
Building your search
Use the following options to construct your Advanced Web Search.
Show Results With
These text boxes give Yahoo Search specific instructions about the words you enter.
| Text box | Explanation | It’s similar to… |
|---|---|---|
| all of these words | Includes all of the words you typed in the search box. | …inserting AND between words or the symbol + before a word |
| at least one of these words | Searches for results that match either one or more of the words. | …inserting OR between the words. |
| the exact phrase | Searches for the words in exactly the order you enter them. | …putting quotes (” “) around a set of words. |
| none of these words | Excludes words from your search. | …inserting NOT between the words or the symbol – before a word. |
Many of these Advanced Search options can also be activated by typing Yahoo Search Shortcut symbols into the basic search box.
Site/Domain
Restrict your search to sites with a specific domain suffix (the part at the end), such as .com, .edu, or .gov. For example, if you’d like to search only websites of non-commercial organizations, click the radio button next to .org to select just .org domains.
You can also use this field to search within a particular website domain, such as yahoo.com.
File Format
You can choose to restrict your search to a specific type of file. Currently, supported formats are:
| File extension | File type (explanation) |
|---|---|
| .htm, .html | Standard HTML (most websites) |
| Adobe PDF | |
| .xls | Microsoft Excel |
| .ppt | Microsoft PowerPoint |
| .doc | Microsoft Word |
| .txt | Standard text file |
SafeSearch Filter
You can choose to have explicit, adult-oriented content filtered out of your search results. We’ll use information gathered from the Yahoo Directory and our technology partners to block a large amount of explicit material.
If you’d like to keep this filter in place for all your Web searches, you can select this option in your Yahoo Search preferences.
Country
Yahoo normally searches websites from all over the world. You can use this setting to search only sites from a particular country.
Languages
Your results might include sites written in English, Japanese, Spanish, or other languages. To limit your current, advanced search to certain languages select them on this page.
To adjust your language settings for all of your Yahoo Search results, use the Yahoo Search preferences.
Number of Results
Yahoo Search normally shows 10 Web results per page. You can choose to see a different number of results per page, between 10 and 100.
You can change this setting for all of your Yahoo Search results, use the Yahoo Search preferences.
Just a few wishes:
- partial word search
- Date range search
- Pseudo Meta-tags search (author, published date, title, only search body)
- Number search
- Special character search such as “What?” (essential when searching for programming terms such as || as opposed to | in php – one is logically or the other is bitwise)
- Number range search
- AD/BC/BP date range search. AD and BC are the way to write dates, unless you use BP (before present, which is an alternative way to date) –THEY ARE THE RIGHT WAY And let me be frank, Christians invented the calendar – so we should reflect that. Moreover, it is just the simple well understood method which only morons would reject. But because of moronic PC stupidity in academia we now have a plethora of date types so in addition to BC, B.C. & BP we now have the completely offensive BCE, B.C.E. (offensive because it denies the work of early Christian Scholars and what’s the difference of Before Christ and Before Christian Era – the simple fact is that the date is related to supposed birth of one named “Christos” by his followers. That doesn’t change by adding a letter! We still call Wednesday after norse gods, the Christians invented the present calendar and Christ does not mean anything to jews since its a Greek word meaning oily – and most ridiculous of all, when we return to common sense and everyone uses BC. Because of the pathetic stupidity of academics we’ll still have a few decades of books where dates cannot be searched properly … and most importantly of all, 128CE in many fonts on poor quality reproductions is indistinguishable from 12BCE).
