Yahoo Indexing PDF Files

Yahoo has started adding PDF files to its index, though at the moment they seem mostly to be in the educational section. You can find them by searching for:

u:pdf

(the u: is a Yahoo special syntax that means, "search in the URL for".)

You will get some non-PDF documents with this search, but the PDF documents you'll find will have a red (PDF) notation next to them.

Yahoo intends to keep adding PDF files to its index. "As long as it adds more value for our customers, we will include it," said a Yahoo spokesman. "We are definitely going to expand on what we have now, but only when it makes sense."

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