Yahoo: Learn to Use the New Yahoo (Google-like) Shortcuts
Contributed by davak 
May 16, 2005 
Tagged: Internet
Google has shortcuts… now yahoo does too. Here’s a brief list.
Yahoo has taken a nice step and decided to do the jedi search engine tricks that google does.
- Convert:
To convert in yahoo you must include the word convert.
Yahoo: convert 4 miles to inches
Time Zones:
I love this. To find out what times it is somewhere else in the world, just say time in location. For example:
Yahoo: time in paris
Calculator:
Yahoo can do math like google now:
Yahoo: (79 + 12) * 3
Number Search:
By typing in an UPC code or VIN code, you can find out information about the vehicle or product.
Yahoo: 026487933013
- Keywords:
[list] – Zip Code Town
– Weather Town
– Traffic Town
– Synonym anyword
– Stock ticker-symbol
– Scores sports-team
– Patent patent-number
– Fedex shipping number
– USPS shipping number
– (Shipping number alone searches UPS)
– News news-topic
– Define anyword
– Airport Airport name or code
These are being updated pretty regularly. Check out yahoo’s information page…