The Sunnyvale kids at Yahoo launched the beta of the much-anticipated Yahoo Site Explorer. The Site Explorer allows users to search sites based on URLs and see how many pages are tied to those URLS. It also allows the user to check inlinks. It should help some even improve their rankings a bit becuase of the ability to search the inlinks.
I’d like to thanks to SERoundtable for their noticing the new beta. This is a pretty big deal because a lot of users will get a lot more out Yahoo’s site search. The results will always be different than regular web search too because search results
Yahoo said this on their site:
What is Yahoo! Site Explorer?
The Yahoo! search database contains detailed information about the structure of the web. In addition to the web pages themselves, the database stores information about links among pages, and uses that information (as well as additional algorithms) to gauge the popularity of a given page.
Site Explorer gives you access to this information so you can learn about a site. To explore a site, you submit a URL using a search box, just as you would for a normal web search. You can then click links on the results page to see detailed information.
I’ve not really played around with the site search site much yet as its just gone live today. There should be plenty to dig around for though. One thing of interest may be the potential size of some of the bigger site. It will people an opportunity to see just how big some of these companies are.
John Stith is a staff writer for Murdok covering technology and business.
