Exploring a site is as easy as doing a web search but instead of entering a "query term" you enter a site's URL and click Explore. What's different about Site Explorer is that it does not return the same kind of results as a web search. Instead, Site Explorer uses the URL you submit to return particular information related to the structure of that URL in the Yahoo! Search database and on the Web.

Example: To see all pages that are indexed by Yahoo! within a domain (including any subpages indexed by Yahoo!, and its indexed inlinks) we typed stanford.edu into the Explore URL search box.

Options on the Site Explorer results page show:

• All pages that are indexed by Yahoo!, within the domain stanford.edu, including any subpages such as Professor Knuth's subpages.
  Note: You can explore any individual result page by clicking the Explore URL link next to it.
• All indexed inlinks to the site: stanford.edu.
• Inlinks to subpages that are indexed by Yahoo!, such as links to Professor Knuth's pages.

By default Site Explorer provides 50 results per page. You can view the live or cached version of any result. You can also export the data to a tab-separated value (TSV) file for further analysis and use Site Explorer's Web Services APIs to understand site traffic and usage better.

If you are exploring a site you manage and have authenticated, you can see additional information about the site, such as:

• Subdomains from the site that are known to Yahoo!.
• Last crawl date of your site's URLs.
• Language detected for the site's URLs.

And the option to download all 1000 results into a tab-separated value (TSV) file at once (and avoid having to page through the results) makes it easier manage the data.