Yahoo Site Explorer
Yahoo Search Blog announces Yahoo Site Explorer a handy alternative to searching with “site:” or “link:” to see what’s getting indexed and linked at Yahoo Search. It’s billed as a work in progress, at the moment you can:
- Show all subpages within a URL indexed by Yahoo!, which you can see for stanford.edu, here. You can also see subpages under a path, such as for Professor Knuth’s pages.
- Show inlinks indexed by Yahoo! to a URL, such as for Professor Knuth’s pages, or for an entire site like stanford.edu.
- Submit missing URLs to Yahoo
There is also a web service API for programmatic queries.
Discussion at Search Engine Watch, Webmaster World.
Danny Sullivan at Search Engine Watch posted a synopsis on the SEW Forum:
I’ve done a summary of things over here on the blog, which also links to a detailed look for SEW paid members.
Here are my top line thoughts:
You can see all pages from all domains, one domain, or a directory/section within a domain. Thumbs up!
You can NOT pattern match to find all URLs from a domain. That would be nice.
You can see all links to a specific page or a domain. Thumbs up!
You can NOT exclude your own links, very unfortunately. Two thumbs down!
You can export data, but only the first 50 items, unfortunately. Thumbs down!
More wish list stuff:
Search commands such as link: aren’t supported, and I hope that might come.
You can get a feed of your top pages, but I want a feed of backlinks to inform me of new ones that are found. Site owners deserve just as much fun as blog owners in knowing about new links to them!
Some of the other posts discuss interesting things you can do with the existing “advanced search” options. I’ll have to try some out, both through Yahoo Site Explorer and using some of the suggested link queries which apparently can’t be done yet through Site Explorer.
Tags: yahoo, search, seo
