Yahoo announced last July 8 that they will be shutting down the once famous Yahoo! Site Explorer in the later part of the year to give way to the Yahoo! and Microsoft Search Alliance.
This announcement was in contrary to their blog post a year ago wherein they said that they will continue its service to the webmaster community. Now they have realized that having two portals for a single source for organic results will not do any good for them so they have decided to let Bing Webmaster Tools as the replacement for Site Explorer.
Hermant Minocha, Yahoo! Site Explorer Product Manager, blogged: “In a large part of the world, we have not yet transitioned to Microsoft search platform. Hence, it is important that Yahoo! continues to receive your site/sitemap submissions so that search results from Yahoo! are fresh and relevant for markets that have not switched over. In order to continue to receive relevant organic traffic from Yahoo! search results, we encourage you to continue using Site Explorer as you have in the past until we fully switch over to Microsoft search platform for organic results.”
“We anticipate that later this year, Yahoo!’s organic results will be powered by Microsoft’s search platform in all parts of the world. After that point, any optimization that you do on [the] Bing Webmaster Center tool will be reflected in Yahoo! organic search results,” Minocha said.
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