Tag: Yahoo

Checking backlinks with Yahoo’s Site Explorer Inbound Links API

Tue, Jun 24, 2008 @ 3:57 pm9 comments

Recently I wanted to create a page that would list the backlinks to certain sites that I had chosen. Yahoo always seems to have the most comprehensive list of backlinks and luckily they also make available a series of APIs that enables you to access their data. Using the Site Explorer Inbound Links API, and an example of a script towards the bottom of that page, I was able to put together a script that closely mirrors the sort of results you would get if you entered a site’s URL into Yahoo’s Site Explorer.

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Will the ’semantic web’ see XHTML finally supercede HTML?

Wed, Mar 19, 2008 @ 7:22 pm1 comment

Theres’ been a bit of news recently about the ’semantic web‘ (or data web) with Yahoo! announcing that their new Search Open Ecosystem will support semantic web standards, thereby providing a far richer and more useful search experience. Tim Berners-Lee, the founder of the Internet, even believes that the rise of the semantic web could see the wane of Google.