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Well is the first time I am not able to give a title to a post (is early in the morning anyway).
Now check this out:
We have had phenomenal response to the new version of Yahoo! Site Explorer we launched two months ago. Thanks to the many of you who have come by and used the new interface, authenticated your site, and asked us questions on the forum. We have been answering many questions on the board, and there are a few common themes that we want to respond to in more detail.
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For those who are unable to upload our authentication key as a text file, we have updated our key file to be HTML with a .html extension.
Now…how dumb do you have to be to do something like that?
Yahoo! Site Explorer is a tool for webmasters and its similar to Google Sitemaps. When Google Sitemaps launched they had a similar problem with webmasters of sites hoted on free providers (as blogger for example).Those couldn’t authentificate the site through a file because they had no upload possibilities. Now Yahoo! has this problem but they want to be original and instead of adding a freaking special meta tag, they make me the great service of letting me upload an HTML file.
HELOOOOOOOOO GENIUSES…..NO FTP RINGS A BELL?
P.S. While writing this I figured that the only users that are going to be happy by the new release are the geocities users. If this service is only for them well, hello and bye bye.
2 Responses to “No Comment”
By Razvan Mihaiu on Oct 6, 2006 | Reply
FTP is becoming less and less known. Most users don’t know that the “http://” part of an URL is the name of a protocol. Other protocols are “ftp://”, “https://”, “news://”, “gopher://” etc.
A few days ago I downloaded some Linux distribution. I noticed that they had mirrors supporting FTP and HTTP protocols. Instinctively I choose HTTP mirrors because with HTTP I will get HTML pages which have more information about what to download. With FTP I should look for some ReadMe files in which the information is not nicely formatted.
Regards,
Razvan M.
By Razvan Antonescu on Oct 6, 2006 | Reply
Well the ideea is that Yahoo should give an option for those that are unable to upload custom files on their websites(blogs). This is the case with hosts like wordpress.com or blogger.com.
If they were to first doing this I would have understood that BUT due to the fact that Google had that issue a year ago and solved it through a custom meta tag gives them NO excuse.