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July 26, 2006

It?s Search. It?s Site Explorer. It?s Webzari!

As Searchblog readers may remember, we launched a tool called Site Explorer last year that you can use to see what pages from a site are indexed in the Yahoo! Search engine. You can also use Site Explorer to see page links.

The Site Explorer interface is based on the search results page experience and returns lists of pages that are indexed, and inlinks to your site, as you can see for the Searchblog.

But the Yahoo! Korea team took the basic functionality and gave it an entirely new look ? as you can see in the Webzari for the Searchblog. Sorry I can?t translate it for you. Here?s one screenshot that explains partly what the tool is showing:

webzari screenshot.jpg

If you mouse over the planets in the Webzari, it gives you more information about the links and clicking on the planets returns the corresponding blog entry or other text. Try clicking around on it ? even though you might not understand Korean, you?ll get the gist of things.

You can even save Webzari searches in My Hub, the Korean version of My Web.

Give Webzari a spin and leave us a comment to let us know what you think!

Arah Cho & Priyank Garg
Yahoo! Search

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Comments


The big question is, should we launch this for the US market?

Posted by: Anonymous | July 26, 2006 05:23 PM

launch it, i think it would make searching web with yahoo fun for kids at least.

Posted by: yjae | July 27, 2006 05:38 AM

Yeah - Nice, but launch it for the US - planets are cool but not being able to read the functions and filters makes it just a pretty tool rather than a useful one.

Posted by: Exposure | July 27, 2006 09:24 AM

Looks like a cool, though not very useful application. I'd like to see more time spent on tweaking the search algo and driving users back to Yahoo search.

Posted by: greg | July 27, 2006 11:26 AM

Greg,

Great post and I agree.

Posted by: Rob | July 27, 2006 02:00 PM

GET IT IN ENGLISH - ASAP!!!
It is going to be a VERY useful tool.

Posted by: http://search-engines-web.com/ | July 27, 2006 03:56 PM

Yes, launch it in English soon!

Posted by: Robert Oschler | July 27, 2006 09:23 PM

I say launch that baby in English. I'd like to fark around with it

Posted by: Jose | July 28, 2006 06:55 AM

Not a bad concept but very limited potential.

Reasons:
- too complicated to make the difference between good and bad links
- not easy with sites with a lot of links.

Maybe some potential for only blog search.

Posted by: Tony Gentil | July 28, 2006 08:55 AM

I don't find this very useful but I have to admit to being intrigued. I would recommend creating it in English and giving it to your viewers. I know I will check it out... I bet there are some uses for it that just are not obvious yet.

Posted by: Ross Dunn | July 31, 2006 09:27 PM

Hmmmmm, intriguing and who knows what else. I vote yes for English!

Posted by: CindyT. | August 1, 2006 07:48 AM

Regarding Site Explorer, nice tool. Like the capability to download the results as tsv. Would LOVE it even better if it would download ALL results and not just the current page you are viewing.

Posted by: CindyT. | August 1, 2006 07:52 AM