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

[Julian Bond <julian_bond@voidstar.com>]

Jeremy Zawodny <jeremy@zawodny.com> 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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