That also means that you can still use Site Explorer for a while. The API will be shut down September 15, 2011. When all markets are integrated to to the Microsoft Search platform later this year Site Explorer will shut down entirely.

Yahoo is not shutting down Site Explorer in one day, they are gradually moving things over to Webmaster Center. Once organic results are transitioned to Bing in all the markets, we plan to shut down Yahoo! Site Explorer and Microsoft’s Webmaster Tools will be the source for Bing and Yahoo! webmaster site and analytics data.” Having two webmaster portals for a single source for organic results does not add enough value. “We listened to your feedback, and along with the team from Bing Webmaster Center looked jointly at the roadmap for the webmaster tools. The closing down of Site Explorer means that Yahoo is directing all their users over to Bing Webmaster Center which should be the default place from now on for site owners when it comes to Bing and Yahoo.Įven though originally Yahoo announced that Site Explorer would not be killed, in the end they did. It took a while but Yahoo now indeed has announced it will be closing Yahoo Site Explorer. When Yahoo and Bing first announced they would partner up many in the industry expected this was bad news for Yahoo Site Explorer.

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