Upgrading site to HTML5; is Yahoo site verification important at all? - seo

I'm working on redesigning an older site and I'm upgrading it to HTML5. The site currently has both Google and Yahoo site verification META tags.
I'm using HTML5 Reset as a starting template and it only has an area for Google site verification, not Yahoo. Also, the W3C Validator validates Google site verification in HTML5, but not Yahoo.
Does anyone have an opinion as to whether or not Yahoo site verification is important or useful? And does it hold any weight with SEO these days?

No.
Yahoo search is now powered by Bing.
You can remove both (Google and Bing) verification references and authenticate using other methods (DNS is best). Bing only offers meta tag and XML methods.

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Could anybody kindly confirm that this is indeed supposed to work and do you have an example? :)
My fear is that the note on this page: https://developers.google.com/gadgets/docs/basic
Note: Writing OAuth gadgets is no longer supported.
spells bad news for me!

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and google+page for this application in https://cloud.google.com/console
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Many thanks
EDIT:
I did notice this on Twitter's site:
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Full disclosure: I work at Temboo.

API for retrieving web site inlinks

I am working on a research project in which I need to find the in-links for approx. 170K URIs. My first thoughts were to use the Google or Yahoo APIs but then I realized that Yahoo Boss is now at Bing, which doesn't seem to support inlink queries, and that Google, deprecated its search API a while ago and replaced it with Custom Search, which doesn't seem to support inlink queries over their whole web index.
Are there any alternative solutions I missed? I am looking for a simple Web API that accepts a given URI and returns the inlinks for that URI.
Thx,
B
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