We’re not through with keywords yet. There’s one more keyword you can use in
the Yahoo! search box, this one to display a dictionary definition for just about
any English-language word. Just enter the keyword define followed by the
word, like this: define word.

Another keyword you can use is map, which searches for maps by address, city,
or area code. Just enter this keyword along with information about a location
into the Yahoo! search box; when you click the Search button, Yahoo! displays
a small map like the one Click the View Larger Map link to view
an interactive, full-page version of this map.


To map a specific address, enter map streetaddress city state, like this: map 123
n main st minneapolis mn. To display a city map, enter map city state, like this:
map minneapolis mn. To display a map of a larger area, it’s a little different;
enter zipcode map, like this: 93932 map. You can also display country or
regional maps by entering map country like this: map australia.

Yahoo! also offers a dedicated keyword you can use to search for the latest
news headlines on a specific topic. When you use the news keyword, Yahoo!
displays the top three current headlines, Click any
headline link to display the full story.


To use this keyword, enter the following into the Yahoo! search box: news topic.
For example, to display the latest headlines about Iraq, enter news iraq.

In addition to the advanced search operators discussed in Secret #2, Yahoo!
includes a number of keywords you can use to conduct specific types of
searches directly from the search box on the Yahoo! home page. The first one
we’ll look at is the keyword weather, which you use to search for local weather
forecasts.
To use this keyword, enter the keyword followed by the city and state that
you’re interested in, like this: weather city state. For example, if you want to
display the weather forecast for Chicago, enter weather chicago il into the
search box, then click the Search button. (You can also enter weather zipcode
to display the forecast for a larger area.) Yahoo! will dipslay a Yahoo! Weather
box, like the one shown in Figure 1-5, with the current conditions and forecast,
along with a link to a five-day forecast.

Just because you conduct one type of Yahoo! search doesn’t mean you can’t
expand your query into other types of searches. It’s as easy as clicking a new
tab on your search results page.
As you can see in Figure 1-4, there are a series of tabs at the top of each search
results page. These tabs are:


Web—The default Web search using Google’s search index


Images—Finds related photographs and images


Directory—Finds related sites listed in the Yahoo! directory


Yellow Pages—Finds related businesses


News—Searches Yahoo! News for related stories


Products—Searches Yahoo! Shopping for matching products

As you’re discovering, Yahoo! offers a variety of search options. There’s Yahoo!
Web Search (via Google) and the Yahoo! directory, as well as separate news,
image, map, product, and Yellow Pages searches.
While you can go to each of these search pages separately, they’re all easily
accessed from the Yahoo! Search page (search.yahoo.com), shown in Figure
1-3. Just click the icon for the type of search you want to conduct, and then start
searching!

Okay, here’s another function Yahoo! shares with Google—image search. When
you access Yahoo!’s Search for Images page (img.search.yahoo.com) you’re
actually accessing Google Image Search. That’s not a bad thing; Google Image
Search is one of the best search indexes on the Web for photographs, pictures,
and other graphics. If you want to find a picture of something, this is the search
to use.
I won’t go into how to use Yahoo!’s image search function, as it’s virtually iden­
tical to that of Google Image Search. Read the section on Google Image Search
in Chapter 6 to learn more.