Yahoo! Site Explorer Beta

[a1call]

Hi,
Just saw this:
[siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com...]
It's news to me and Can't quite get the point.
Comments and feature descriptions are appreciated.

[like2golf]

Doesn't appear to be any different than the site: command

[travelin cat]

I saw this at Pubcon, it is more powerful then the site command... check out the explore url feature, you can go on for hours finding linking patterns...

[Jimville]

If a page listed in Yahoo Site Explorer doesn't include a "cached" link (only an "Explore URL" link), does that mean that page really isn't in the index, and therefore is not eligble to be ranked?

[engine]

I like the ability to filter out internal links.

[Freedom]

That's the most complete backlink checker I've ever seen. Very hand tool.

It seems if you have a banned website, it shows URL not found too.

Great find.

[philaweb]

Perhaps Yahoo! should consider removing links being met with a 410 Gone error or a 301 Moved Permanently. Otherwise the Yahoo! Site Explorer is going to be an index of outdated URL's.

[keyplyr]

Yahoo! Site Explorer is going to be an index of outdated URL's

It already is out of date. It's showing URLs that haven't existed for well over 2 years in some cases.

[Mike_Werner]

Very usefull! Thanks for posting it!

[goodroi]

Site Explorer was first announced in August and went live in September. There have already been some threads about it.
[webmasterworld.com...]

[steveo]

Looks like I'll be able to build my google sitemap with this. :)

[Powdork]

I am noticing people hotlinking my images are showing up as backlinks. Has Y always done this?

[Powdork]

Also links with the nofollow tag are showing up.

[Stefan]

Great stuff, a1call. I didn't know about it until now. I'm finding inbound links I never knew about by using the site-wide link function.

[keyplyr]

Also just found several of our webpages cached, even though we've used <meta name="robots" content="noarchive"> for 2 years now.