Big Three Join Forces To Aid Indexation
November 17th, 2006 by pamela
Google, MSN and Yahoo! have teamed up to support Sitemaps, a free open source software tool which allows webmasters to make their site more accessible to search engines.
Sitemaps will allow a catalogue of pages to be created in the form of an XML file listing URLs along with additional metadata, and will also inform spiders of content updates and newly added pages.
This is an interesting development and an unusual one to report on! It’s not every day that you can say that Google, Yahoo! and MSN all back the same development, but better indexing can only be good for the web and it’s good to see the search giants put their weight behind such a project – it can’t be too long until everyone else joins in.
Have a look at the interview from PubCon where the announcement was made.
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