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Google, Yahoo, Microsoft adopt same Web index tool

Steven Parker   on 16 November 2006 - 13:06 · 6 comments & 8708 views

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Search engine rivals Google, Yahoo and Microsoft are teaming up to make it easier for Web site owners to make sure their sites get included in the Web indexes, the companies are expected to announce Thursday.

The companies are adopting Google's Sitemaps protocol, available since June 2005, that allows Web site owners to manually feed their pages to Google and to check whether their sites have been crawled. Web site owners have had to follow similar processes at each of the other major search engines separately.

Now, Web site owners will be able to go to one place for alerting the search engines to their Web pages, something they have been requesting for some time, said Tim Mayer, director of product management at Yahoo Search.

News source: C|Net via OSNN

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#1 slimy on 16 Nov 2006 - 13:47
Great news for web developpers
(2 replies) #2 xxdesmus on 16 Nov 2006 - 14:02
Thank god for this ...now we just need a little bit more cooperation between these guys.
#2.1 guylaroche on 16 Nov 2006 - 14:28
Just one more step towards Microsoft domination of the search engine .
#2.2 Phrosty23 on 16 Nov 2006 - 14:59
Quote - guylaroche said @ #2.1
Just one more step towards Microsoft domination of the search engine .


UM did you not see that they chose Google's SiteMaps Protocol??? So how is this a step towards Microsoft domination?
#3 PeteyPal on 16 Nov 2006 - 14:19
It's cool they're starting to cooperate more to make it easier for web users. It's like the Mozilla + Microsoft feed icon thing.
#4 TheGriffin on 17 Nov 2006 - 01:04
Wow, Microsoft is truly leading the software industry. I mean they're cooperating with almost every company they compete with.

Awesomeness of Microsoft!

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