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After a year in beta, Yahoo! Mail has been “officially” released. Congratulations to our friends down in Sunnyvale on this momentus release. Naturally, leaving beta means adding even more features.

Here’s the skinny:

Search Improvements

Being able to refine my searches within email is something I miss when using web based email over Outlook or Apple’s Mail program. Yahoo! has answered this with a series of great refinement options.

Currently, you can refine searches by (pictured):

• Sender
• Folder
• Date
• Attachment Type
• Message Status

Yahoo! Messenger

Following Gmail’s lead, Yahoo! has incorporated Yahoo! Messenger into the Yahoo! Mail interface. AIMing to be your communications dashboard, moving IM into Yahoo! Mail is a great help for people like me who communicate via IM all day.

For an added dose of interoperability, if you have friends that use MSN Messenger, you can add them to friends list in Yahoo! Messenger as well. (I’m now just one step closer to not using Adium and Trillian).

Text Messaging

Finally, for you crazy kids out there with your texting and your LOL ZOMG, Yahoo! is helping you keep track of your posse via SMS.

You can now send and receive txt messages directly from the Yahoo! Mail interface and view the conversations inline

Now, I know there are other places you can send SMS on the web for free, but as part of my centralized communications arsenal that is Yahoo! Mail, I don’t have to go looking very far.

No word on whether Yahoo! is paying my texting bill :-)

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