Search Engines Unite on Sitemap Protocol
Google, Yahoo and Microsoft have agreed on a unified system for submitting web pages to search engines. Called “Sitemaps” funnily enough, the Sitemaps protocol will be based on Google Sitemaps which will be upgraded to Sitmaps 0.9 to reflect the now unified system.
Windows Live users will be able to submit their webpages to Sitemaps through the Live Search Submit page, and Yahoo users can use Yahoo Site Explorer. Existing Google sitemap users will not have to change anything 
For more info checkout the Sitemaps.org website
Excellent!
Comment by Cameron Manderson — November 20, 2006 @ 10:21 am
Definitely. I guess the next step is unifying the “ranking” system.
Comment by Richard Lee — November 20, 2006 @ 12:03 pm
Sitebases, the next protocol after Sitemaps…
It can save the time and press for the search engine, also for the websites.
It can bring new search engine that named Search Engin 2.0.
Using Sitebase protocol, will save 95% bandwidth above. It is anthother sample for long tail thery.
In this protoco…
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