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Yahoo! Search’s Site Explorer gets an update
Yahoo has joined the “beta” bandwagon with an updated release of it’s truly useful (and free) Site Explorer online tool to help publishers (and everyone else) see what links go to and come from any web site.
The neat categories are displayed in such a way that even a “novice netizen” will find Site Explorer fun and rather easy-to-use… ?† la Google, if you will!
Here’s a short list of featured novelties, for this recent upgrade (August 8, 2006):
- There‚Äôs more information about the sites you own, including “last crawled” date and more.
- Feed submissions are much smoother. You can submit RSS, Atom and URL lists, and manage all of them from one place. For authenticated sites, you can also track when they were submitted and processed.
- An Update Notification Web Service was added for you to notify Yahoo of feed or site updates, part of the popular Site Explorer API suite. Since these return the same data as the tool, it’s recommended to use them for automated applications.
The new interface, in and of itself, is perhaps the masterpiece, within the scope of this update — a lot more information is available through the smart and tasteful use of expandable results which instantly reduce clutter.
Add to that the much requested ability to download more URLs from sites you own (supported by a more robust authentication process) and you see why Site Explorer should be on your “explore-worthy” list of cyber-destinations.
In case you still haven’t tried the Site Explorer tool, go check what kind of results it returns for your web site… and then check your competitors’!
Tags: yahoo, site search, web sites, web crawling, web publishers, site explorer, notifications, api suite
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