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New York, VT (prHWY.com) November 28, 2011 - yahoo or yahoo Web Search is a web search engine owned by yahoo Inc. yahoo Search is the most-used search engine on the World Wide Web, receiving several hundred million queries each day through its various services.The order of search results on yahoo's search-results pages is based, in part, on a priority rank called a "PageRank". yahoo Search provides many options for customized search, using Boolean operators such as: exclusion alternatives and wildcard..

The main purpose of yahoo Search is to hunt for text in Web pages, as opposed to other data, such as with yahoo Image Search. yahoo Search was originally developed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1997.yahoo Search provides at least 22 special features beyond the original word-search capability.These include synonyms, weather forecasts, time zones, stock quotes, maps, earthquake data, movie showtimes, airports, home listings, and sports scores.

There are special features for numbers, including ranges prices, temperatures, money/unit conversions , calculations package tracking, patents, area codes, and language translation of displayed pages.In June 2011, yahoo introduced "yahoo Voice Search" and "Search by Image" features for allowing the users to search words by speaking and by giving images.

The frequency of use of many search terms have reached a volume that they may indicate broader economic, social and health trends.Data about the frequency of use of search terms on yahoo (available through yahoo Adwords, yahoo Trends, and yahoo Insights for Search) have been shown to correlate with flu outbreaks and unemployment levels and provide the information faster than traditional reporting methods and government surveys.

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