Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft Now Working Together?
November 16th 2006 21:16
I almost had to read it twice to believe what I was seeing. Today when I fired up my RSS aggregator I was slapped with a jaw dropping headline.
"Yahoo, Google and Microsoft join forces (really !!) behind Sitemaps"
WOW! How cool is this? I really like the way Priyank Garg, Product Manager for Yahoo! Search, gives us the good news on the Yahoo Blog.
"The best part about to-do lists is when you get to cross something off, and today we can cross one more from the list of feedback we have collected from webmasters. You have asked us to support a single format for submission and today we want to talk about how we are teaming up with Google and Microsoft to support Sitemaps 0.90."
That's what I like to hear. Sitemaps have done wonders for my Wordpress blogs and I've been curious to see how this thing would unfold between the three big dogs of the search world. I'm just surprised that Microsoft gave in like this. I didn't see that one coming.
Garg goes on...
"Together we're announcing www.sitemaps.org, which provides details of the current release of the Sitemaps protocol and will include future updates as we continue to collaborate on this common protocol. By offering an open standard for web sites, webmasters can use a single format to create a catalog of their site URLs and to notify changes to the major search engines. This should make is easier for web sites to provide search engines with content and metadata. And in turn, search engines can spend less time crawling unchanged pages and can update indexes faster as new content is discovered. This will help us reflect the changes more quickly, and improve our ability to provide more timely and relevant search results for users. Sitemaps is available to any site owner who wishes to communicate more easily with participating search engines. Simply create and upload an XML Sitemap and submit the URL of the file to search engines.
You can submit Sitemaps to Yahoo! Search through Site Explorer, just like you could add RSS feeds up to now. Just add the site to which the feed belongs, to your list of sites, and then add the feed for that site. We will retrieve the sitemap and use the data you provide us.
We are open to feedback and ideas on what more we can do with Site Explorer and Sitemaps. Share your thoughts in our forum, we’d love to hear from you."
Call me a nerd, but I'm feeling like a ten year old on Christmas morning right now. This should make the getting pages indexed process a lot more streamlined for all three search engines. I'm looking forward to it.
Now back to that question... will M$ buy Yahoo?
"Yahoo, Google and Microsoft join forces (really !!) behind Sitemaps"
WOW! How cool is this? I really like the way Priyank Garg, Product Manager for Yahoo! Search, gives us the good news on the Yahoo Blog.
"The best part about to-do lists is when you get to cross something off, and today we can cross one more from the list of feedback we have collected from webmasters. You have asked us to support a single format for submission and today we want to talk about how we are teaming up with Google and Microsoft to support Sitemaps 0.90."
That's what I like to hear. Sitemaps have done wonders for my Wordpress blogs and I've been curious to see how this thing would unfold between the three big dogs of the search world. I'm just surprised that Microsoft gave in like this. I didn't see that one coming.
Garg goes on...
"Together we're announcing www.sitemaps.org, which provides details of the current release of the Sitemaps protocol and will include future updates as we continue to collaborate on this common protocol. By offering an open standard for web sites, webmasters can use a single format to create a catalog of their site URLs and to notify changes to the major search engines. This should make is easier for web sites to provide search engines with content and metadata. And in turn, search engines can spend less time crawling unchanged pages and can update indexes faster as new content is discovered. This will help us reflect the changes more quickly, and improve our ability to provide more timely and relevant search results for users. Sitemaps is available to any site owner who wishes to communicate more easily with participating search engines. Simply create and upload an XML Sitemap and submit the URL of the file to search engines.
You can submit Sitemaps to Yahoo! Search through Site Explorer, just like you could add RSS feeds up to now. Just add the site to which the feed belongs, to your list of sites, and then add the feed for that site. We will retrieve the sitemap and use the data you provide us.
We are open to feedback and ideas on what more we can do with Site Explorer and Sitemaps. Share your thoughts in our forum, we’d love to hear from you."
Call me a nerd, but I'm feeling like a ten year old on Christmas morning right now. This should make the getting pages indexed process a lot more streamlined for all three search engines. I'm looking forward to it.
Now back to that question... will M$ buy Yahoo?
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