One sitemap protocol for Google, Yahoo! and MSN
The three big players in search have finally agreed to a single protocol for submission into their indices. Google Sitemaps was is a system for enabling site owners submit their web site through a XML version of their URL feed. While, Yahoo! Introduced their own version soon after, the two systems required different formats which made it clunky and time consuming. The thought of any other engines like MSN introducing their own version would have taken things back to the 90’s when sites had to be manually submitted to every engine separately.
The announcement today to use a unified protocol is great news and this kind of collaboration can only be a good thing, and hopefully will lead to more efforts to improve the web for site owners, search engines and users. The last time these guys got together, they introduced the nofollow tag to combat comment spam in blogs, and there’re many other areas where knowledge sharing could help, from removing spam to understanding user behaviour.
You can read more here Google, Search Engine Watch
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