Comments on: Time Saving Search Shortcuts

By: jay

jay — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 13:17:12 +0000

Should of never created shortcuts, your customers paying for advertisment will wonder what the hell am i paying yahoo for! this i would think would cut off a lot of your revenue for yahoo! it sounds like a good idea but you also have to be careful when it could attack the customers that depend on yahoo to get somone to see there ads and yahoo’s structure itself could be then in danger! in short your allowing customers to bypass business, in wich now they probally will never see! is that good? not hardly. great idea but will hurt yahoo’s adertising dollars greatly and the hurt the businesses that depend on their ads being found! got to look at the big picture yahoo! i should be on your payroll as a consaultant to make sure mistakes like this never happen!

By: Nathar Leichoz

Nathar Leichoz — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 16:02:06 +0000

I think you definitely need to define two more for a dictionary search and a thesaurus search. I travel a lot and I frequently use kiosks to send emails. If I have the Yahoo! page in the background, then I can quickly look up definitions.

shortcut:dict worng
shortcut:thes good

By: Orlando L. Graham

Orlando L. Graham — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 14:17:11 +0000

To Whom it may concern: I’m having problem downloading music video’s.

By: Raj Bala

Raj Bala — Tue, 27 Dec 2005 01:12:55 +0000

What would save me some time would be to have a “next page” and “previous page” button on My Yahoo where I can scroll through all of my pages of RSS feeds quickly. Right now, I need to select each page by using the drop-down list. C’est passe mon frere!

By: knight17

knight17 — Sun, 25 Dec 2005 12:26:44 +0000

I think this is a nice thing
by doing this one can decrease the
use of the browser very quickly
thanks
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By: ChaTo

ChaTo — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 10:54:42 +0000

I agree with others that a FAQ entry acknowledging that a similar idea was implemented first by YubNub (optionally also telling that you’re not related to them; or that you are different because such and such reason) … would be the right thing to do.

By: An

An — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 09:57:09 +0000

…forgot to add the first link comes from searching (my custom shortcut) -
!sf A whiter shade of pale
and the second from -
songfacts A whiter shade of pale

By: An

An — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 09:46:48 +0000

To Brandon

I actually have used “wiki xyz” and “ebay abc” to look for stuff using yahoo’s search engine and almost always get the result but I think !wiki xyz is an improvement over wiki xyz, in that it insures you’ll get the result always instead of mostly.

I still think http://www.songfacts.com/search_fact.php?title=A+whiter+shade+of+pale&-Nothing.x=0&-Nothing.y=0
looks better than
http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/search?ei=UTF-8&p=songfacts+A+whiter+shade+of+pale

Even though in both the cases the first result is the answer.

Normally I add search engines to my browser (Opera) but I do not want a big list and for search services that I do not use much, it is certainly a better thing to add shortcuts to my default search engine.

Though I think Yahoo! can do better by making it easier to add custom shortcut. Ask people to search for (for example) Yahoo! and copy and paste the url into a box that will create the !shortcut

By: Jeremy Zawodny

Jeremy Zawodny — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 04:52:57 +0000

Heh. You win.

Now I need to train my fingers on that one.

By: Shantanu Oak

Shantanu Oak — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 04:36:14 +0000

>> If your’e talking about the built-in search box
>> in Firefox, I use CTRL+L followed by TAB

or you can use Ctrl + K