Yahoo! Site Explorer

Find out what pages Yahoo have from your site on their index with Yahoo! Site Explorer.

So what is the site explorer? From Yahoo!

Yahoo! Site Explorer is a tool that lets you access the information we have about a site’s online presence. You can see which sites and subpages are indexed by Yahoo! Search, track sites that link into webpage, and view the most popular pages from any site. Use Site Explorer to:

* Find which sites and subpages are indexed by Yahoo! Search!.
* Find pages that link to that site or any page. (inlinks)
* View the most popular pages from any site.
* Submit and track feeds for your sites.

You can get even more detailed information and greater ability to manage a site or its URLs when you authenticate the site. You can:

* Find what subdomains of the site known to Yahoo!.
* See other information Yahoo! detects about your site, such as language.
* Delete URLs that you don’t want indexed by Yahoo!.

So, it’s a bit like googles site: operator and in fact it if you were to perform a site: search on the yahoo search engine you would be directed into the Yahoo! Site explorer.

No More Supplemental Index On Google

I’ve only just come across this so it’s prob been around for a while, but for those who don’t know the big G (otherwise known as Google) have removed the “Supplemental Index” label from Google search results.

This is Google’s definition of the ‘Supplemental Index’:

Supplemental Results once enabled users to find results for queries beyond our main index. Because they were “supplemental,” however, these URLs were not crawled and updated as frequently as URLs in our main index.

But now, this is no longer the case as Google technology has improved over time, they are now able to crawl with a much greater frequency causing their index to be ‘fresher’ rendering their ‘Supplemental results’ useless and have therefore been removed.

adSense On Your Mobile

Just reading the google adsense blog and the first post I see is one about having adSense on your mobile based sites (by that I mean sites that can be viewed on your mobile phone).

In other words you are now able to monetise any site that can be viewed in a mobile phones browser with adSense ads.

From the blog:

To get started:
1) Sign in to your account.
2) Select the AdSense Setup tab and click on AdSense for mobile.
3) Follow the instructions to customize your ad unit for AdSense for mobile.

Welcome To Search Works

Welcome to my new blog – it’s nothing special but I hope you like it

Search works is generally going to be a blog about search engines and how they work to news and information about the search engine industry.

I’m personally fascinated by search engines and the sheer technology needed to run one, I may be wrong, I may be right but hey it’s my blog and what I say goes :p .

Jesse