Re: Re: Yahoo News Search in RSS

On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 08:08:57AM +0000, Julian Bond wrote:
> 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

Yes, either one will work.
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