End of Yahoo Site Explorer
Its a shame. One of the most useful tools for Search Engine Optimization types was the Yahoo site explorer. And now its gone.
Its the old story of what you have you take for granted – that is until its gone.
Google may of been the search engine that counted for most business types – yet Google severely limits the information that they provided to the users and games . That is what links were caught by the search engines , and perhaps what tactics and procedures worked or no longer worked.
The Yahoo tool was a most useful guidepost of figuring out in a gross sense what search engines “caught” or did not catch. On top of that many of the tools that were purchased and taken for granted in a days work – used the Yahoo site explorer as their basis and stock of trade.
Overall now that the service is gone – many users are perplexed . What counts ? What doesn’t ? What is effective and what is not. On top of that many of the tools – that now cost- don’t seem to work for all and catch all links. So it becomes a matter of using a number of tools in concert and working it out with judgment between it all.
Still its good as it keeps the nubes and neophytes out of the marketplace.