Yahoo Updates Site Explorer

Last September, Yahoo launched Site Explorer, available at http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/. Site Explorer allows you to enter a URL and get a lot of information about that URL, including the number of pages in that domain, and the number of links to that page. You can also export your results in TSV format (which I think is just a really fancy extension name for tab-delimited, like you'd open in Excel.)

Last week Yahoo announced several improvements to the service. New offerings include several international editions, as well as the ability to filter out internal links when searching for links to a site. This is not made available via a syntax or an advanced search, but rather a pulldown menu on the incoming links results.

Yahoo is also offering the ability to submit sites to the Yahoo search engine in a variety of formats, including RSS feed, single-page, index (a text file with each page URL for the site listed on its own line) and Atom feed. To submit a page you'll have to be a registered Yahoo user and logged into the site. Once that's done you can get the page at http://submit.search.yahoo.com/free/request. You'll be offered to enter an URL page or a Web page URL.

Unfortunately every time I tried to enter a URL, I got the following error: "The following resulted when trying to access your document: timeout". Anybody have better luck than I did?

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