Thursday, November 16, 2006

Speaking of New Initiatives...

Web publishers, worry no more. Saving bandwith, and finding fresh content for search engines will be easy as pie, right...now!

Search Leaders Team Up

According to Thomas Claburn, web writer for TechWeb.com, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft are teaming up to support Sitemates.90, which is a "...protocol that lets Web publishers inform search engines about content on their sites". What is cool about the 3 search "leaders" working together as a team, is that website owners/developers will now only have to worry about one file to maintain. This new, unified format will help webmaters and consumers by "delivering more relevant search results so they can find what they're looking for faster", said Ken Moss from Windows Live Search, in Claburn's article.

Lookin' Good

The idea of this joint effort sounds like nothing but good for everyone involved. Sitesmaps.90 seems to be the word to be thrown around in the coming week. Google's "Official Google Webmaster Central Blog" describes the Sitemaps initiative as an experiement in the works. The blog also includes links that tell website owners and developers how to go about submitting a Sitemap file.

Seeing how this change will affect website owners (especially businesses) will be interesting in the weeks to come.

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