Comments on: Google, Yahoo, MSN Debut Sitemaps.org

By: Jonathan Crouch

Jonathan Crouch — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 11:38:55 +0000

Correct me if I’m wrong but I’m sure I read somewhere that Yahoo etc favoured ROR site maps and after looking at their more involved format than Google site maps, I created ROR for Fabulous Photo Gifts.

Does this mean Yahoo and others are ditching the ROR or will it still help to have both sitemap and ROR .xml for your site?

I’m not trying to jump the queue by having both but I figured that anything you can do to attract the attention of the Search Engines was worth a go and couldn’t do any harm.

I opened a Yahoo account and submitted both our URL and the ROR document that way.

By: Keith Goodman

Keith Goodman — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 23:42:21 +0000

As far as Yahoo and Google working together, I sure hope so. This is a necessity! Too much work to have Yahoo site and search engine, Google Adwords, Google Adsense, and then AOL and MSN fit in here somewhere as well. Just make this ALL work together in synergy!

By: JB

JB — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 22:12:15 +0000

I have been using Google sitemaps for the past year and it is great. I was able to find the Yahoo Sitemaps address https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com but does anyone know where to set up sitemaps for MSN?

By: Igor Tamm

Igor Tamm — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 18:41:55 +0000

Strange collaboration. I seem to recall that Yahoo knuckled under to Fed pressure to expose their users Email addys and URLs to “government” scrutiny, while Google told them to take a flying leap into the nearest ocean. What happens now with this “let’s do something together?”

By: DonaldJ

DonaldJ — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 17:21:52 +0000

“Yahoo and Google working together”..?? Yikes!.. and Wow!..

It’s about time a couple of the big guys got together in something good… All the big guys ever do is fight with big guy software glitches.. with the user in the middle in the crossfire of their insanity insatiable money-sucking wars… I was thinking it’s time to send my high powered barrage of letters, to effectively push China into creating their own communications I-Net “Chinet”, so to establish this kind of fairness in our parts of the world.. and to rock the bug guy’s boat a little.. to force the Money to wake up to a little humanity… But Hey!.. maybe a few of the kids actually found they can play nice, after they stop playing mean…
Or maybe they’ve realized that our ways are actually driving all Life toward extinction.. and they just want to make a little more money while they can…

Hey China.. howzabout implementing another worldwide Internet “Chinet”.. so to give the almighty lifeless monsters a little competition.. and make the rest of ‘em play nice too… And just maybe that ploy would stop the inevitable “pay per email” scenario, which is to take place in seven years.. as a mindless useless religious political 13-Collonies Salem-style punishment ploy, to regulate Intranet bullying and policing.. to push humanity deeper into the bottle in Democracy’s wasteland of the walking dead…

By: scott adie

scott adie — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 16:59:30 +0000

It all sounds like something that’s long overdue. But of course my next question has to be: “Have the coolaborators in the Sitemapping standardizations already determined how to extort money for this and will it be a covert operation?” Besides the obvious benefits to the end-user most often moves like this seek to further a hidden agenda. I’m not saying this is the case, I like the idea. I’m only saying we should be watchful! It’s realistic to suggest that the result will be a financial savings for the developers in furthering their interests on the web. If they improve their bottom line this way, we all benefit and that should be encouraged.