18
Apr
Yahoo Site Explorer Now Showing Page Type
I had not checked into Yahoo Site Explorer for a while but when I did today I noticed that they have added some additional information to their listing of indexed pages and backlinks. Instead of just showing the title of the page and the URL they now show the page type as well. The few listings I have checked differentiate between Text/HTML pages and Application Pages (Like PDF Files). Here are a couple of screenshots of the new feature.
Application/PDF
Text/HTML
I am always happy to see more information being provided by search engines and this is a good step. I would like to see them continue to expand on this and provide more detail but I am happy to see them attempting to move forward.
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April 18th, 2008 at 2:01 pm