PayPlay.FM development.log

Friday, December 07, 2007

Webmaster tools

This month I found that MS corporation is not as dead as I thought before. Yes, its online presence is not that big, but at least they try to change it.

Why? Because this month I stumbled upon products.live.com, system like Froogle or Y! Shopping.
For the last couple of years, Yahoo and Microsoft both tried to copy Google's tools but with different success. I can't compare their strategies or decisions,the only thing I can compare is a quality of their tools.

While Yahoo! Product Submit sucks (reports with no details, broken categorization, strange format, one file data.txt,etc), his brother at Product Upload even in beta has some features even Google Products does not have. And it even supports google base txt format.

Today I found another clone from this trinity: Google Webmaster Tools and Yahoo Site Explorer, meet Live Search Webmaster Center. Almost same things - upload/ping sitemaps, see top search position, check robots.

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