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Google Launches Google Sitemaps

Posted by Zonk on from the please-stop-innovating dept.

Ninwa writes "Google has launched Google Sitemaps. It seems to be a service that allows webmasters to define how often their sites' content is going to change, to give Google a better idea of what to index. It uses some basic XML as the method of submitting a sitemap. More information on the protocol is available in an FAQ. What's most interesting is that Google is licensing the idea under the Attribution/Share Alike Creative Commons license. According to the Google Blog, this is being done '...so that other search engines can do a better job as well. Eventually we hope this will be supported natively in webservers (e.g. Apache, Lotus Notes, IIS).' They even offer an open source client in Python."

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  1. Off Topic, Yeah, But I Am So-o-o-o Googled Out by RobotRunAmok · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sure, if I don't want to read about Google, don't open the article, I know. But I can't even do a search on the site here without now being reminded it's a "Google Slashdot." (See new button on bottom of this page.)

    The Slashdot promotion of Google is reaching Onion-Level parody status, 'cept it's not a parody, it's real.

    Just... rest it... mebbe a coupla two-three days, but just... rest it.