Re: Re: Yahoo News Search in RSS

Jeremy Zawodny <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I tried that but adding additional terms *reduced* the numbers of hits.
>> An OR search ought to increase them. "wifi" = 20 "Wifi or wlan" = 7
>
>Okay, here's the answer.  You need the cryptic "o" parameter.  So, to
>search for stuff that involved either "linux" or "greenspan", you'd do
>this:
>
>http://search.news.yahoo.com/usns/ynsearch/categories/47/index.html?p=gr
>eenspan%20linux&o=o

Brilliant. Thanks very much. It appears that this works with normal url 
encoding as well eg,
index.html?p=greenspan+linux&o=o

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