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What is Yahoo! UK & Ireland?
Yahoo! UK & Ireland is a hierarchical subject-oriented guide for the
World Wide Web
and Internet. Yahoo! UK & Ireland lists sites and categorises them into
appropriate
subject categories. It features all sites indexed by the original Yahoo! and
augments the database with sites of unique value to British and Irish people
everywhere. See the help
file for help using Yahoo!
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How does someone get their information listed in
Yahoo! UK & Ireland?
Yahoo! UK & Ireland is a database of links to other sites.
Yahoo! UK & Ireland does not provide original content; so we can only
reference
sites that already exist.
To get listed, you must set up a page on the World Wide Web. If you don't
know what that means, please have a look at the
WWW FAQ, which
talks about how to write a home page in HTML, and find a WWW server to serve
your document (Section 5 of the FAQ).
Once you have a URL of something that you think we should add,
please check first to make sure that we do not already have it. The easiest
way to check is to
search
for the URL that you want to add. If we do not have it (or if we have it in
the wrong place), tell us using Yahoo! UK & Ireland's
add your site page.
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What do the numbers in parenthesis stand for?
The numbers that appear in parenthesis next to Yahoo! UK & Ireland categories
represent the number of entries categorised under that subject heading.
The number does not include entries in any linked directories.
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What does the "@" sign at the end of a category mean?
The "@" symbol that appears at the end of a category means that this heading
is listed in multiple places within the Yahoo! UK & Ireland hierarchy.
Clicking on
the
heading will take you to the primary location in the hierarchy for that
heading.
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A site was in Yahoo! UK & Ireland last week, but it's no longer
there.
What happened??
Things in life come and go, and sites on the Web are no exception. It
probably means a number of things; most probably that we have removed
the site because it is no longer functional. But to make sure, you
should do a search to
make sure we haven't moved it elsewhere.
- How are links gathered for the Yahoo! UK & Ireland
database?
There are two ways in which Yahoo! UK & Ireland gets its links. First, it's
through
user submissions. This is done by clicking on the "Add URL" function in the
menubar. Currently submissions comprise almost all of our entries.
The second way Yahoo! UK & Ireland get its links is through automated search
robots that look for new announcements at various locations on the Web.
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I like the GIFs used in Yahoo! UK & Ireland. Can I get the
gifs? How do I get the gifs?
Feel free to get and use most GIFs used in Yahoo! UK & Ireland. We ask
you not to use the menubar on its own, since it is becoming
synonymous with Yahoo!.
If you're using Netscape, all you have to do is click the right mouse
button on the image, and choose "Save this image as" from the pop up menu.
Otherwise, the easiest way to get an in-lined GIF is to take a look at
the source ("view source" option on most browsers), and find the location
in the HTML document that refers to the image. Select the "Download to
local disk" option on your browser. Then, "open url" on the
reference to the image.
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What kinds of bugs should be reported to Yahoo! UK &
Ireland?
Please report errors to us
if a link has been relocated, or disappeared, permission denied, or if we
have made errors in the title, comments, URL, or classification of the link.
Since we have no control of what other people put on their servers, do not
ask us to change contents on pages that do not reside on Yahoo! UK & Ireland.
Any URL that does not contain yahoo.co.uk in its path is not on Yahoo! UK
& Ireland. For bugs involving contents on a non-Yahoo! UK page, please contact that
page's author(s) or webmaster.
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What should I do if I click on a link and get
"Permission Denied", or "File not found"?
When you follow a link and you get errors, there may be several reasons.
First, the site may be busy or temporarily down. This happens a lot
especially on overloaded sites such as ftp.netcom.com. It may be that the site
is denying people access. In which case, if you really want access, please
write email to the site authors (usually webmaster@sitename). Of
course, it may be that the link no longer exists.
If you think that a link no longer exists, please inform us and we'll
remove it from our directory.
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Why can't I read news (i.e. Usenet newsgroups) in
Yahoo! UK & Ireland?
When you follow news links, such as news
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news
server (i.e. NNTP server). If you are getting error messages like
"cannot talk" or "cannot locate host" you probably do not have your
news server set properly in your WWW browser configuration. Please
see your browser documentation on how to set this option.
If you do not know what news server you should be connecting to, you'll need to
ask your internet provider (e.g. your sys admin) for the machine name.
However, some providers will not give you access to a local news
server. In this case you have at least two options. First you can
look at a list of
publicly accessible news servers and try to find one near you that
will grant you access.
In general these servers are rare due to loading problems. A second option is available through some gopher sites
that allow you to read news through their gopher servers. However, using this option will not allow you to click on the news links in Yahoo! UK & Ireland. Instead you'll have to find the newsgroups yourself in the news hierarchies on the gopher servers.
Once you have a server for reading news, you still might encounter problems with some of the news links in Yahoo! UK & Ireland. The most common problem will be "no such group" messages. This will happen when your local news server does not carry that particular newsgroup. To solve this you'll have to find some other server that does carry that group (see above). This problem is very common with the ClariNews newsgroups since most sites do not carry their news feed.
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How do I increase the number of search hits returned?
On the Yahoo! UK & Ireland search page, there is a pull-down menu that says "Limit number of matches to". Drag down the options and select the desired number of returned matches. Default is 100. (Note: Your browser must support forms.)
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Can I write my own code to point to your search form?
Certainly. Although be aware that we can change our search interface without notice, so make sure the fields you use stay consistent over time.
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Whom should I contact for permission on including
screen shots and other Yahoo! UK & Ireland copyrighted materials?
We generally have no problem if you need to take screen shots
of Yahoo! UK & Ireland, as long as proper attribution back to Yahoo! is
given. If you are not sure and/or need written permission, please send
email to webmaster@yahoo.co.uk.
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What are the advertising opportunities
available on Yahoo! UK & Ireland?
Advertising on Yahoo! UK & Ireland is ongoing. Check these pages for info.
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What is the system set up for Yahoo! UK & Ireland??
The setup on Yahoo! UK & Ireland is almost always changing. Currently, the database is a custom-made database (not publicly distributed) on the Unix platform. Most functions, including the httpd server, are developed specifically for Yahoo! UK & Ireland and its products.
For hardware, Yahoo! UK & Ireland is being served on multiple IBM Pentium-based PCs
running Unix.
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