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News Searching--Yahoo
Early Beta Test: Changes and Tweaks at Yahoo News Search
+ About 7000 sources (35 languages) being crawled
+ News database is now refreshed more frequently
+ Improved ranking algorithm
+ Merged results. No more results listed under two headings as in "News Results" and "Yahoo News Story Matches"
+ Additional limits and options on the advanced search page
+ One advanced option allows limiting by geographical location. For example, entering Colorado in the "location" box searches only newspapers published in Colorado (Denver, Boulder, etc.) that Yahoo News is crawling,
+ At the present time the beta is only available by using this url ¦¦¦ Advanced Interface
+ Note the option on a results page (far right side of page) to compare results using the current Yahoo News database
+ Remember, this is a beta! Changes and odd behavior is very possible.
+ Yahoo News Search Beta "What's New" page
and while we're on the Yahoo beat...
A new option on the clutter and ad-free search.yahoo.com page allows you to customize which Yahoo databases (in addition to the main web database) appear as tabbed links on your browser. Eight database options are available.
