August 26th, 2006 by metapilot

As I noted back on Aug 17, all my site:domain searches required that I be logged into my Yahoo account. Since then I noticed, in passing, that I seemed to be getting link:domain searches back in that same interface. Now I realize that you do have to be logged in and you do have to use the Yahoo Site Explorer for the link: searches as well.It doesn’t make that much difference to me which I use, although in some of the forums, people have remarked that the site:domain search gives you different results depending on which interface is used and he the Yahoo Site Explorer is, to some degree, deficient, compared to getting results through the standard search interface.

That’s not been an issue for me but what seems to be an issue is some my research tools the make use of Yahoo link information have been eratic and in some cases not working at all. I can’t help but figure that it has something to do with changes in structuring the queries for the new interface. Some of my tool vendors seem to have come up with a fix already but some have not.