Yahoo! Site Explorer
Yahoo! Site Explorer was a Yahoo! service which allowed viewing of information on websites in Yahoo!'s search index. In particular it was useful for finding information on backlinks leading to a given website or domain. The service has been closed and the technology transferred to Microsoft. Yahoo Site Explorer merged with Bing Webmaster Tools, a tool similar to Google Webmaster Tools.
However, the core functionality of being able to check backlinks to any URL has been completely removed, and there is no such replacement from inside Bing's Webmaster Tools. Quite a few new Site Explorer alternatives have sprung up which offer similar features.
Webmasters who added a special authentication code to their websites were also allowed to:
- See extra information on their sites
- Submit Sitemaps
- Submit up to 20 URL removal requests for their domains to Yahoo!.
- Rewrite dynamic URLs from their site by either removing a dynamic parameter or by using a default value for a parameter.
- Submit feeds for Yahoo Search Monkey
- View Errors Yahoo encountered while crawling their web site
Due to the cooperation between Microsoft's Bing and Yahoo!, the Yahoo! Site Explorer was shut down on November 21, 2011.[1][2].
[edit] References
- ^ openstepnews.com
- ^ "Site Explorer Update". Yahoo!. http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/index.php. Retrieved 16 January 2012.
