Yahoo Shutting Down Site Explorer This Year!

It will become part of Bing Webmaster Tools I think? So not much lost except independence of Yahoo continuing decreasing to zero

Yes, Bing webmaster tool will take charge : http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-shutting-down-site-explorer-this-year-85038

Yes, it did shut down. But I so far don't see it in the Bing tools. 

Yes I also heard this news. Yahoo site explorer is shutting down But I want to know that why the yahoo taking this step.

Yahoo! Site Explorer, gives website owners/webmasters access to detailed information; pertaining to the over-all functionality of a specific website. In most cases, Yahoo! will authenticate website ownership; within twenty-four hours. To check the status of a website authentication, go to My Sites in Site Explorer and check the Status field; next to the desired URL. Once website authentication has been successful, website owners/webmasters can begin to build a closer relationship, between the website(s) they are optimizing; and the formidable Yahoo! search engine.

Bing is Expanding his boundaries, So he take our the yahoo site explorer. Bing is getting very better in Search.