My Web 2.0 Does Tricks!

As I mentioned last week, Yahoo! Search has released a new “social search” product, dubbed My Web 2.0 (MW2). Some of the nifty features of MW2 include being able to: save and share links with your community, control access to your stored links by assigning one of three access levels (My Web, My Community, Everyone), use tags to organize your data (links), along with the ability to use both synchronous and asynchronous web tools to exchange or discuss any of the content from your MyWeb2 knowledge pool with anyone!

Now the My Web2.0 blog offers the following helpful tips and tricks to make your social search experience even more useful:

• contact: search for content saved by that special somebody in your community (e.g. contact:"john doe")


• tag: search for all content saved with a given tag (e.g. tag:"blogs i read")


• title: search for all content with a given title (e.g. title:ebay)


• note: search for a note you wrote yourself, or remember previously viewing (e.g. note:great)


• url: search for content specific to a given url (e.g. url:ebay.com)


• content: search across the text of all the saved content in your community.


• abstract: search across the abstract (the summary you see in your Web search results) of the saved content in your community

Just remember that there's no space between the colon and the search term. Also, if there are multiple words in the query, you need to put quotes around it. e.g. contact:"john doe.”

Be sure to check in with the My Web 2.0 team blog for more details, tips & tricks!




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