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31 August 2001 07:02 PM
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Yahoo! AU

Like the US search engine,Yahoo! Australia is powered by Google. General searches work well, but narrow and specific searches generate significantly fewer results. The only options provided for customising searches are search method and search area. Although its category search is strong, Yahoo! lacks the power and tools of many of the other engines.

Boolean searches are supported, along with a variety of search operators, though these make no difference to the generally poor results. Yahoo! displays search results in two sections: results from categories listed in the Yahoo! directory, and Web site matches. Unfortunately, like a number of other search engines, Yahoo! does not display the URLs of the sites listed in the results. Yahoo! handles general keyword searches adequately, but is much less helpful with more complicated searches.

In a similar fashion to the US, Web results received from Google are much better than those from Yahoo!'s category directory. A good feature of the site is when the results of a search are displayed, you can click on the "Australian sites" link or the "whole of Yahoo!" to receive refined results, without doing another search. Yahoo! also has an excellent help section.

Yahoo! AU

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Talkback 1 comments

    Matilda Keith -- 04/01/06 (in reply to #120126443)

    The Correct address for Matilda is
    http://www.matildasearch.com
    Is theee any chance you coulds replace your content with a simple link?
    Keith

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