Google and Yahoo! Working Together On Better Web Indexing

Karzz1 writes "In an exclusive video interview with WebProNews, Yahoo and Google announced a collaborative site called sitemaps.org. Yahoo!'s Tim Mayer states in the video, 'This is something we are announcing tonight at around 9 PM tonight (Las Vegas) Google and Yahoo have gotten together to provide webmasters and publishers a unified way to send their content... let our search engines know about new and existing content.'"

Re:The Department Raises a Valid Point

[Rob T Firefly]

What is the real purpose of this collaboration? To me it looks like an attempt for the search engines to get content providers to make the search engine's job that much easier.

That makes sense, though. The whole reason for the web is the content provided by content providers, and they need the search engines to know what they have to offer just as badly as the search engines need the content to search for. It's all symbiotic, and it is just logical that one side is willing to help the other do something that ultimately helps both sides.

Over compilicated!!!

[hey]

Why not just have a link from your main page to an HTML sitemap that links to all pages on your site.
Nice and easy. And usable by people and crawlers.

Re:What About Microsoft?

[Coward the Anonymous]

I'm confused--when Microsoft does something good, do we just ignore it? You know, I'm all for criticizing their evil plans for world domination in the software market but shouldn't news be subjective not objective even if it is only for nerds?

You got those backwards. Objective means without bias while the news you are complaining about is subjective, it is biased towards downplaying the good things Microsoft does.

Semantics, they'll get you everytime.

Re:What About Microsoft?

[joto]

In other words, MSN is bigger in the search market, than firefox is in the browser market.