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Yahoo! News also has an alert service for their news database which can deliver email alerts for specific keywords up to twice daily.
- Dates: Some from the past month, but most from the past week.
- Sources: Reuters, AP, States News Service, MSNBC, Web newspapers sites, and more
- Sort: Not date, possibly relevance
- Frequency: Every 15 minutes
- Case Recognition: No
- Stop Words: Yes, including a, of, the
- Frequency: According to their documentation, hourly for Reuters and several times a day for MSNBC
- Case Recognition: None
- Stop Words: Yes, including a, of, the
- Truncation: None available, and it does not do the full automatic truncation available on the rest of Yahoo!. It may do simple automatic plurals that only add a final 's'.
- Boolean: Yahoo! supports use of the + - syntax but not full Boolean searching. The default for multiple term searching is an implied AND.
- Phrase: Phrase searching can be designated by double quotes "" around a search phrase.
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