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.
The core functionality of being able to check backlinks to any URL is now availaible from inside Bing Webmaster Tools.
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].
References
- ^ openstepnews.com
- ^ "Site Explorer Update". Yahoo!. Retrieved 16 January 2012.