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Yahoo! Hacks
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Yahoo! Hacks

by Paul Bausch
October 2005
Intermediate to advanced
489 pages
12h 2m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Set Persistent Yahoo! Search Preferences

Tweak your Yahoo! preferences to get the most out of your searching.

If you already have a Yahoo! ID, you can set some preferences that will affect the appearance and content of your Yahoo! searches. To set your preferences, first make sure you’re logged in to Yahoo! by visiting http://login.yahoo.com and entering your Yahoo! ID and password. From there, browse to http://www.yahoo.com or http://search.yahoo.com and look for the Preferences link to the right of the search form, like the one highlighted in Figure 1-7.

Yahoo! Search Preferences link

Figure 1-7. Yahoo! Search Preferences link

If you don’t see the preferences link, you can browse directly to http://search.yahoo.com/preferences. From the Preferences page, you can set a number of options that Yahoo! will remember and apply to any search results in the future.

New Window

When searching a particular topic, it’s easy to click on a search result, get lost in reading, and find yourself several clicks away from your original page of search results. If you find yourself clicking your browser’s Back button again and again to get back to your Yahoo! search results, you might want to open links from the search results page in a new browser window. You can set this preference by checking the New Window box on the Preferences page. This is handy for keeping your search results page in place, allowing you to browse other sites ...

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