grasshopper
07-14-2006, 02:58 PM
i use Yahoo! pretty much exclusively for checking link info. i've always found search.yahoo.com to deliver more accurate data than Site Explorer.
today, an interesting thing happened. i went to search.yahoo.com to run some queries, and site:, link:, and linkdomain: operators all re-directed me to Site Explorer. here was the message:
Your "linkdomain:" query has been redirected to Site Explorer. You can continue to use normal web search for other queries.
i wondered if Yahoo had decided that all operator queries would go to Site Explorer from now on, so i had a few friends run queries from search.yahoo.com, and none of them were re-directed. so i cleared my cookies, tried again, and this time no re-direct to Site Explorer.
apparently Y! is interested in identifying "heavy users" of these operators, and funneling them to Site Explorer - maybe to reduce query data that they consider "clutter" in their regular search index? has anyone else seen this?
today, an interesting thing happened. i went to search.yahoo.com to run some queries, and site:, link:, and linkdomain: operators all re-directed me to Site Explorer. here was the message:
Your "linkdomain:" query has been redirected to Site Explorer. You can continue to use normal web search for other queries.
i wondered if Yahoo had decided that all operator queries would go to Site Explorer from now on, so i had a few friends run queries from search.yahoo.com, and none of them were re-directed. so i cleared my cookies, tried again, and this time no re-direct to Site Explorer.
apparently Y! is interested in identifying "heavy users" of these operators, and funneling them to Site Explorer - maybe to reduce query data that they consider "clutter" in their regular search index? has anyone else seen this?