Some slightly related from Technorati and Google.

 [Tien Soon's Tech Blog] Tell Google about Your Site Updates and Get Listed Quickly: google_ad_client = "pub-2271894776008577"; google_alternate_color = "69AAF0"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 90; google_ad_format = "728x90_as"; google_ad_channel =""; google_color_border = "EEF6FD"; google_color_bg = "69AAF0"; google_color_link = "FFFFFF"; google_color_url = "FFFFFF"; google_color_text = "000000";

[searchengineherald.com] Google launches new service for webmasters: Google has launched a new service to help webmasters get better coverage by the search giant. The new service, Google Sitemaps, lets webmasters contribute to better crawl coverage by providing Google, based in Mountain View, Calif., with specific information about their web pages, such as when

 [The Compuations of AdamR :: Technology Edition] Google Sitemaps - Exellent new search indexing tool from Google: Google has just released yet another very useful tool and extension to their search engine: Google Sitemaps. To make things simple, Sitemaps is a tool for you to basically notify (in a way) Google of when you update your site without needing to be crawled to find new links or new content. The Googlebot simply views your “sitemap” file, and it knows which pages have been updated or added, and which ones havn’t. When it sees one as updated, it sends out a spider to crawl this page and index it, which in turn, if you have good content, layout, and links, should increase your Google PageRank and search ranking even more than before.

 [StraTechnologist] Google Sitemaps: index your web site sitemap: Google Sitemaps is an easy way for you to help improve your coverage in the Google index. It’s a collaborative crawling system that enables you to communicate directly with Google to keep us informed of all your web pages, and when you make changes to these pages.

 [NoCategories] Google Sitemaps: Google Sitemaps is an experiment in web crawling. Using Sitemaps to inform and direct our crawlers, we hope to expand our coverage of the web and improve the time to inclusion in our index. By placing a Sitemap-formatted file on your webserver, you enable our crawlers to find out what pages are present and which have recently changed, and to crawl your site accordingly.

[Technology Blog] Helping search engines index your content: . Shivakumar is the engineering director and technical lead for Google Sitemaps. Excerpt (quoting Shivakumar): '[How does this work?] Webmasters create XML files containing the URLs they want crawled, along with optional hints about the URLs such as things like when the page last changed, and the rate of change. They host the Sitemap on their server and tell us where it is. We provide an open-source tool called Sitemap Generator to assist in this process. Eventually, we are hoping webservers will natively support the protocol so there are no extra steps for webmasters. When a Sitemap changes, we support auto-notifying us so we can pick up the newest version....At this early stage, we cannot guarantee that we'll crawl or index all your URLs. But as we understand the data better, we hope to get more of the data into our crawl and indices....[Is this free?] Absolutely. Also, this is an open protocol [under a Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike license]. We are hoping all webservers and search engines adopt this protocol and benefit from the increased collaboration.'

[JRB Technology] RedHat Drops Fedora....: Add comment Google has released another tool, or service if you will. The service accepts an XML based sitemap of your whole site. This new service will help in the index of your website. If you have a specially large site, it will help Google index the URLs that it may have missed in its

 [Blog.searchenginewatch.com] New "Google Sitemaps" Web Page Feed Program: Participation is free. Inclusion isn't guaranteed, but Google's hoping the new system will help it better gather pages than traditional crawling alone allows. Feeds also let site owners indicate how often pages change or should be revisited. Below, a Q&A on the new program with Shiva Shivakumar, engineering director and the technical lead for Google Sitemaps.

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[Searchenginegenie.com] SEO BLOG: Is sitemap necessary for a site? Search engine ...: Not all search engine crawlers crawl a site deeper and deeper, Some crawlers like yahoo slurp tend to go into a site only to a certain extent, For crawlers like slurp pages shouldnt be buried deeper, A sitemap will combat this problem, When a site map is used pages will come closer to top level and this help yahoo's crawler slurp to reach inner pages too,

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[Ldodds.com] Lost Boy: Google Scholar: This highlights another mis-conception I've seen in some of the recent commentary: as far as I can tell Scholar is not yet making more of the invisible web visible, its mainly a subset of its existing index. I don't see that they've created a custom crawler so I'm expecting data to appear in both the main index and Scholar. The latter just had some limited editorial input (domain selection from what I can see) and some extra processing required, e.g. citation extraction and analysis.

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