You no longer need Yahoo verification. It just points you at Bing to do it.
Google is now much easier. Just get a Google Analytics id and that is good enough.

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#4 yahoo-be-gone.patch1.05 KBmgifford

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jlittlewood commented

No everyone has the new async Google Analytics snippet.

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mgifford
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Still would be good to nix the Yahoo pages.

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thib
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Issue summary: View changes

Google encourages use verification through DNS (no longer possible to do with html file) and it is also possible to do for Bing

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Status: Active » Needs review
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new yahoo-be-gone.patch1.05 KB

This should get rid of yahoo..

Not sure what is needed for google, but it seems to work as is no matter how easy it is via other means.

EDIT: Must remember to remove it project page https://www.drupal.org/project/site_verify too

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damienmckenna
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Does anyone have a link to an article that confirms the y_key meta tag was dropped by Yahoo?

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deekayen commented

@DamienMcKenna

https://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.html - points to Bing.

https://s.yimg.com/zz/pv/static/misc/index.html is a more announcement-type page.

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chris matthews commented
Version: 7.x-1.0-rc2 » 7.x-1.x-dev
Status: Needs review » Reviewed & tested by the community

The 3 year old patch in #4 to site_verify.install and site_verify.module applied cleanly to the latest 7.x-1.x-dev and definitely makes sense to nix Yahoo.

Checking patch site_verify.install...
Checking patch site_verify.module...
Hunk #1 succeeded at 143 (offset 28 lines).
Applied patch site_verify.install cleanly.
Applied patch site_verify.module cleanly.

  • elc committed c798a6ea on 7.x-1.x 
    [#1412198] by mgifford, deekayen, chris matthews, elc: Remove Yahoo...

  • elc committed f6f0bb1a on 7.x-1.x 
    [#1412198] Restore the Yahoo information in README.
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elc commented
Status: Reviewed & tested by the community » Fixed

Needed to add update to cope with any sites still sporting a Yahoo engine based verification. Without the engine being present, php array index notices start appear in the watchdog.

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elc commented
Version: 7.x-1.x-dev » 2.1.x-dev
Status: Fixed » Patch (to be ported)

Needs porting to 2.1.x. README already says it's deprecated.

The concept of engines are intended to be removed from 3.0.x branch.

elc opened merge request !13

  • elc committed c97c5c7e on 2.1.x 
    [#1412198] by mgifford, deekayen, chris matthews, elc: Remove Yahoo...
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elc commented
Status: Patch (to be ported) » Fixed

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed - issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.