Yahoo announced some more cool shortcuts to their search engine this morning. I have to say, it is nice to see Yahoo’s committment to making their search engine better each day. I wish they had done it earlier, but then we might be talking about Yahoo! like we talk about Google today. More competition is better for all of us. Anyway, the new Yahoo! Search shortcuts are pretty cool. You use an exclamation mark and an operator like ebay to check for something. So, !ebay lemond will take you directly to eBay and query for the word lemond. Or you can compose mail in your Yahoo! Mail account by entering !mail jason@yahoo.com. Some cool and practical stuff there. You can read how to get started with Yahoo! Shortcuts here.