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June 16, 2005

Search Password-Protected Sites with Yahoo Search Subscriptions

CNet reports on a handy new search tool, launched yesterday by Yahoo.

Yahoo Search Subscriptions allows you to search across seven different subscription sites, including the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal Online, ConsumerReports.org, TheStreet.com, The New England Journal of Medicine, Forrester Research, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineer.

Now, before you go off thinking you can get access to all of that great content for free, their is a catch.

Users of Yahoo's service must have subscriptions at the targeted sites to access the information, said Tim Mayer, director of product management at Yahoo Search. It will initially be available only in the United States and the United Kingdom, Yahoo said.

Yahoo users can add any or all of the subscription sites to their preferences on the search page and search for results from only the subscription sites, or have the subscription results appear along with results from the rest of the Web, he said.

Here's how it looks...

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