Microsoft and Yahoo! embracing site maps
Posted on 16. Nov, 2006 by Daniel Aleksandersen in Search Engines, Web Development
Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! all announced today that all three search providers have agreed to embrace Google’s site maps technology.
Site maps are XML summaries on how frequent each pages on a Website are updated and when they where updated last. Making it easier for search engines to find pages to index and how frequent they should be rechecked for new content.
Learn more about site maps at it’s new home at http://sitemaps.org/.
You can currently submit your site maps via Yahoo! Site Explorer and Google Webmaster’s Tools. Microsoft has yet to implement it’s support for the standard.
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Jack M.
20. Nov, 2006
I thougth the sitemaps protocoll had been a standard for Yahoo!, Google and Windows Live Search for ages!?
Well, I found the press releases on all three search engines’s blogs, so I guess I was wrong…