October 2005
Intermediate to advanced
489 pages
12h 2m
English
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How This Book Is Organized
The book is divided into several chapters, organized by subject:
- Chapter 1, Search
This chapter shows you how to become a Yahoo! power searcher by taking advantage of meta keywords to return more relevant results. You’ll also see how to use search shortcuts to find instant answers to some common questions. This chapter tells you how to find popular search phrases and technologies by analyzing Yahoo! Buzz, and we’ll pit Yahoo! against Google to see which search engine returns the most relevant results.
- Chapter 2, Services
Yahoo! offers information about everything from stocks and bonds to movie and TV schedules. This chapter shows some unique ways to use Yahoo! Web Services, including monitoring your commute for problems, watching TV schedules automatically for appearances by your favorite celebrities, and visualizing your music collection.
- Chapter 3, Communicating
Use the hacks in this chapter to reach out and touch someone. You’ll find hacks for managing your Yahoo! Mail, collaborating with Yahoo! Groups, and exploring your social networks with Yahoo! 360. This chapter also shows some ways to personalize Yahoo! Messenger and share your photos with the world.
- Chapter 4, Web Services
This chapter introduces you to the back door that Yahoo! has opened for developers. You’ll find bare-bones examples in several scripting languages that can give you a head start to creating your own Yahoo!-powered applications.
- Chapter 5, Applications
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