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Avatar Went Hot: July 16, 2007 - 4:35 pm
Posted By: NatashaRobinson 418 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.threadwatcher.com)
Category: Yahoo SEO
Why is Yahoo! Site Explorer now adding this parameter to searches: “fr2=seo-rd-se”?

UPDATE: Since ThreadWatcher.com seems to be down for good, I'll go ahead and recreate my findings here.
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Last week I had been doing a little backlink reconnaissance via Yahoo.com when I noticed that I was not being redirected to Yahoo! Site Explorer as per usual.

On a few tries doing a "site:" or a "link:" search via Yahoo!, I would be redirected to either the "Advanced Search Options" page or to the Login page for Yahoo! Site Explorer.

Since I didn't feel like logging in, I decided to switch to Firefox and use the Yahoo! search extension. That's when I noticed that the end of the URL for each search query I did was appendage: “fr2=seo-rd-se”.

This was especially odd, because when I logged into my Yahoo! account and did the search in Yahoo! Site Explorer, this was not the case.

So a few questions come to mind:
1. Is Yahoo! moving to "Login Only" approach for Yahoo! Site Explorer?
2. Why are searches outside of a "login" being appended with “fr2=seo-rd-se”?
3. What the heck does “fr2=seo-rd-se” mean?

Any guesses?
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from Silver 417 days ago #
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Very cool observation!

from boostengine 417 days ago #
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Site's suspended. Was it the SPHINN EFFECT?!?!11!1!one!

from randfish 417 days ago #
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Wow - the Sphinn effect is enough to bring down Threadwatcher? Not sure if that's kudos to Sphinn or shame on Threadwatcher...

from DLPerry 417 days ago #
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Bummer, still down. Where IS that darn bandwidth when you need it?


from NatashaRobinson 417 days ago #
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I guess it is the Sphinn effect. Thanks for the link IWasHere

from DavidLaFerney 416 days ago #
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I'm covetous of your sharp eye. Good job.

from todd 416 days ago #
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Still down? Jeez... This article looks interesting. I wasn't able to see it via Google cache... any other places I can check this out?

from leadegroot 415 days ago #
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I've had to login to use Site Explorer for many, many months now - I assumed everyone did. Now I want to know why I am 'special'! :(

from NatashaRobinson 414 days ago #
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@Lea: really? even if you are using a search extension in Firefox or the new ie?

@David: I'm covetous of your cute baby!


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