Finally! It appears Yahoo Site Explorer: http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com is now a reality. Yahoo gives the heads-up to everyone here on its Yahoo Search Blog.
Yahoo Site Explorer a beta search application is a place to see which pages Yahoo has indexed. After clicking Explore URL you will find the number of pages found in the Yahoo Index and also the number of in links. You can sort pages by ‘depth,’ submit URLs, and quickly export the results to CSV format…
Site Explorer is also supported via an API.
- You can see all pages from all domains, one domain, or a directory/section within a domain
- You can NOT pattern match to find all URLs from a domain, unfortunately
- You can see all links to a specific page or a domain
- You can NOT exclude your own links, very unfortunately
- You can export data, but only the first 50 items, unfortunately
Aimed at webmasters, Site Explorer offers the page results in a text tab-delimited file for analysis, so that web publishers can determine which pages on their site are missing from the index. Interesting tidbit: Yahoo! Site Explorer lists 10,881 inbound links to Lifehacker whereas Technorati has recorded 2,127. Go ahead and type your favorite site into Site Explorer to give it a whirl at: http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com.