Webmaster tools from search engines gives valuable information

If you've never signed up for the various webmaster accounts at the major search engines (Google, Live Search, Yahoo!) then you're missing out on a lot of very valuable information on your website. These are great tools to help increase your position within the various search engines.

Where to find:

• Google Webmaster - Help you with your crawling and indexing questions, introduce you to offerings that can enhance and increase traffic to your site, and connect you with your visitors.
• Yahoo! Site Explorer - Allows you to explore all the web pages indexed by Yahoo! Search. View the most popular pages from any site, dive into a comprehensive site map, and find pages that link to that site or any page
• Live Search Webmaster - Use the Webmaster Tools to troubleshoot the crawling and indexing of your website, submit sitemaps and view

MSN Live image search better than all others

Does MSN actually have a search feature that rivals that of Google? Well it would appear so as many people are talking about how good the MSN Live image search actually is.

Gave it a try for the first time and I must the results are impressive and the ease of use, coupled with some AJAX features, makes it quite a nice search.

Image Live Search:
http://search.live.com/images/results.aspx?q=veign

MSN Live Search provides LinkFromDomain operator

MSN (Live Search) provides a special operator that allows one to search all links coming out of a domain. Using the LinkFromDomain you can see all outbound links that MSN is aware of.

Link:
http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=LinkFromDomain...

Bug in MSN Search?

http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=link%3A+google.com

Does it bring up a blank browser window for you? Not good that a major player in the search engine war has such a bug.

UPDATED: MS turned the feature off

Google PageRank and Backlinks Checker

I wasn't sure I was going to post about this but what the heck, I post about everything else. Another tool from Veign that can give you a compact report of Google Pagerank and backlinks from various search engines in a single report. The reason I wasn't going to post about it is because its more of a tool for my needs and not sure if anyone else would even care to know about it. For now its limited to a mazimum of 10 URLs but may expand if my needs exceed 10 or I hear enough comments that request more.

Link:
http://www.veign.com/tools/pagerank/