Yahoo Site Explorer Adds Features: Delete URL From Index

The Yahoo Search Blog just announced that Yahoo Site Explorer has new features. Yes, one of those features is the Yahoo Site Explorer Badge, which we reported this morning. But there are more features. You can now delete URLs from the index with a click of a button.

If you authenticated your site with Yahoo Site Explorer, there will be a delete button when you “explore” a URL. Other features include authentication via META tags and more detailed authentication errors. Pretty cool that you can easily remove URLs from Yahoo’s Search index, here is a screen capture:

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