Yahoo! is one of the best known and most popular Internet portals. Originally just a subject directory, it now is a search engine, directory, and portal. To go to the Yahoo! portal and main starting point, use www.yahoo.com . For direct access to the search engine, use search.yahoo.com and for the directory use dir.yahoo.com . This review primarily coves the search engine features.

Databases : On a search, a few categories from the directory and Inside Yahoo! content is shown followed by sponsored links (ads), and then the bulk of results labeled as Web Results come from Yahoo!'s own search engine database, introduced in Feb. 2004. It appears to be primarily (but not entirely) based on an Inktomi database.

• Web Pages
• Sponsored Links
• Yahoo! directory
• Images
• Video
• Local (Yellow Pages)
• Products
• News
• Other databases provide much of the information from the portal side of Yahoo!

Strengths :
   * A large, new (as of Feb. 2004) search engine database
   * Includes cached copies of pages
   * Also includes links to the Yahoo! directory
   * Supports full Boolean searching

Weaknesses :
   * Lack of some advanced search features such as truncation
   * Only indexes first 500 KB of a Web page (still more than Google's 101KB)
   * Link searches require the inclusion of the http://
   * Includes some pay for inclusion sites

Next.....Review of Yahoo features

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