Search Engines Unite on Unified Sitemaps System

Search Engine Watch:

In alphabetical order, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo have agreed to all support a unified system of submitting web pages through feeds to their crawlers. Called Sitemaps, taking its name from the precursor system that Google launched last year, all three search engines will now support the method.

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★ Thursday, 16 November 2006