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Iternet Explorer is a search engine, a piece of software written to enable you to use the internet. Other search engines include examples like firefox (which I, personally, don't like as it crashes more often than Internet Explorer.

Yahoo.com is essentially a very large database, a resource of knowledge and information housed on a number of servers (very large hard drives) which can be accessed over the internet via a search engine.

The question you are asking is whether you can install yahoo's database on your software (your search engine), this alas is impossible. While it may be possible (and probably illegal) for you to download all the information held on yahoos servers you would need at least 100 terabytes, thats 100,000 gigabytes, of storage to hold it all, considering the average home computer has around 250 gigabytes of hard drive space and you begin to get an idea of how much space you need i.e 400,000 home computers.

Google is the same as yahoo, in that they hold, process and store web site information and data for people and for internet access. Google currently has 2.4 petabytes of information stored on hard drives - thats 2400 terabytes or 2,400,000,000 gigabytes of information.

Put another way, if you scanned onto a computer every book in the world, even the duplicates, all those copies of Harry potter, everything held in every library, every newspaper, magazine or legal document, anything that anyone ever put down on paper - it would only be about 0.5 petabytes of data.

We truly live in the information age.

All that aside you still can't store a database (yahoo) in software (Internet explorer), only on hardware (hard drive)