Finding E-Commerce Sites On The Yahoo! Merchant Solutions Platform

Not sure if this will help anybody, but I thought it was a neat trick.

Awhile ago, a company I work with was interested in finding ecommerce sites to partner with that made about $2-3 million dollars per year. I told them that sounded like a Yahoo! Store to me, and that there was an easy way to search for ecommerce sites hosted on the Yahoo! Merchant Solutions platform.

Every site hosted on the Yahoo! Merchant Solutions platform is required to have a privacy policy which begins with this text (automatically inserted by Yahoo!):

This site is hosted by Yahoo! Store.

We can use that fact to search for Yahoo! Stores on any subject. Just go to Google (or your favorite search engine) and enter something like this:

+"This site is hosted by Yahoo! Store” +{your choice of keyword}

The result will be a set of links to Yahoo! Stores which pertain to the word (or phrase) you chose as a keyword.

Some Examples
Yahoo! Stores related to baseball
Yahoo! Stores related to fashion
Yahoo! Stores related to food
Yahoo! Stores related to music
Yahoo! Stores related to scrapbooking

As I said, I’m not sure if this will be helpful to anyone, but in case it is, I thought I’d mention it.

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