Re: [syndication] Re: Yahoo News Search in RSS

[Jeremy Zawodny <jeremy@zawodny.com>]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 07:07:52AM +0000, Julian Bond wrote:
> dror <dror@zapatec.com> wrote:
> >--- In syndication@yahoogroups.com, Jeremy Zawodny <jeremy@z...>
> >wrote:
> >> On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 09:45:44AM +0000, Julian Bond wrote:
> >> > Jeremy Zawodny <jeremy@z...> wrote:
> >> > >See Also: http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/001001.html
> >> >
> >> > Most excellent! Have you figured out how to do OR searches? All
> >the
> >> > variations I've tried do AND between search words. eg
> >> >
> >http://search.news.yahoo.com/usns/ynsearch/categor
> >ies/47/index.html?p=wif
> >> > i+wlan
> >>
> >> Nope, but I can ask if it's doable...
> >
> >Seems like it's straight forward:
> >http://search.news.yahoo.com/usns/ynsearch/categories/47/index.html?p=Li
> >eberman%20OR%20gore
> 
> 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=greenspan%20linux&o=o

Does that help?

Jeremy
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