howto.yahoo.com - learn the internet, or at least Yahoo!'s piece of it
Yahoo! How-To is a tutorial for surfing the web, finding what you want, being part of communities, and enhancing Yahoo! Basically, it just seems like a vehicle to plug Yahoo! and all of the doors you can walk through. :)
travel.yahoo.com - leisure and business travel
[vacations.yahoo.com also dumps you here] {Main source: Travelocity} I've become a big Travelocity user once they cut me off from EasySabre :( but I found that I'd prefer to go in via travel.yahoo.com. Why. Mostly because I hate putting in my username and password every time at Travelocity. Yes, I had to recreate my profile and prefs within the Yahoo! system, but at least it automatically recognises me or at least doesn't ask for authetication just to shop around. The specials page is nice. Otherwise, you're basically looking at Travelocity.
people.yahoo.com - white pages type subsite
[www.four11.com also dumps you here] {Main source: Four11's old database + new info they are collecting} Not a bad way to try to track down a real human on the internet. The telephone search plugs you right into what appears to be real phone records for the whole country, ie: not only people who've signed onto Four11 or People Search. Certainly cheaper than calling for directory assistance or one of those ubiquitous 10-10-directory assistance services you see hawked on US television constantly. I tend to use my CD ROMs of the country's phone books or my 2-way pager to get phone numbers, but someone will find this useful. You can also look up email addresses for a person, but again this is based on them having signed onto Four11 in the old days or the Yahoo! system more recently.
yp.yahoo.com - their yellow pages
{Main source: not sure - it has the same "fingers do the walking" symbol as their People Search} This is, or seems to be, the entire yellow pages for all businesses in the US. Not bad for free.
profiles.yahoo.com - get to know people via their Yahoo! account
This is one feature that is probably designed to give you more of a community feeling. That way if you meet someone playing games or chatting or in a club, you can look them up and see what they've put in about themselves. Of course, nobody can guarantee any of that information is true, but they do leave spaces for pictures, favourite URLs, and personal info. You can also create multiple personalities... I mean profiles... for yourself so you can be a married woman in the chat rooms and a teenage boy at the backgammon table. For whatever reason you'd do that! :)
