A Yahoo Shortcut is a quick way to get information you want. For example if you are searching for Carrie Underwood, A Yahoo Shortcut displayed at the top of search page. It shows her picture, official web site, links to her albums, lyrics and videos, some songs which you can play right on the search page and some video thumb nails. So , You can directly pick what ever you want in the search page itself.

A Yahoo Shortcut automatically appears when it is relevant to your search. You no need to specially do anything, just search in yahoo.

The above snap shot is Y! Shortcut for Carrie Underwood.

If you click on the songs shown in the above Y! Shortcut under Play-Full length songs, A popup screen will appear at bottom of search results page which has a player that plays the selected song from the list.

The above snapshot is a player at bottom of search results.

The above snap shot is a Y! Shortcut for Quantum of Solace, It shows movie showtimes in the New York city. You can change the city to know showtimes.