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Yahoo Hacks
While Google hacks-tips, tricks, techniques, and scripts that make Google more
powerful and useful-are plentiful and fairly well documented, the same cannot be
said (yet) for Yahoo Hacks, despite the fact that O'Reilly published a Yahoo Hacks
book in late 2005. Part of the reason for this was the absence of Yahoo APls, a
problem Yahoo recognized and rectified with its Developer site.
Yahoo Developer Network
Yahoo Developer Network Blog
http://developer.yahoo.net/
http://developer.yahoo.netlblog/
While many of the hacks, mostly employing some form of API, are geared toward
maps, Yahoo launched a webpage devoted exclusively to Yahoo and "mixed" API
applications.
Yahoo Search Application Gallery
http://developer.yahoo.netlsearch/applications.html
I recommend you pay special attention to the following applications that use Yahoo
APls, although you may find others even more useful to you:
Link Harvester
http://www.linkhounds.com/link-harvester/
This is a very powerful-but very slow-tool for examining links to a domain or a
specific urI. The example below shows the links to [www.mfa.gov.cn]. Link Harvester
does the following:
• quickly finds almost every single site linking into a domain or page.
• scrapes past the 1,000 search result limit by making domain filtering a
snap.
~ grabs number of pages indexed.
• grabs links to any page.
• grabs total inbound links, home page links, and deep link ratio.
• tool is fast and free. which is great considering all it does.
• grabs C block IP address information.
• tool provides links to Wayback Machine and Whois Source (now Domain
Tools) next to each domain.
• free & open source
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