Some slightly related from Technorati and Google.

[vrypan|net|log] Google Sitemaps Launches: GoogleSitemaps Launches June 6th, 2005 From code.google.com: ”¦ , Google launched GoogleSitemaps, a new service designed for webmasters that enables them to automatically submit their web pages to Google. It is meant to provide Google with more information about web content so we can

[Ryan Sheehy] New Wordpress Plugin: Google Sitemaps: A little while ago Google announced a new sitemaps feature where webmasters would publish an XML page on their site and then issue the XML address to Google’s Sitemaps allowing Google to spider the site knowing what pages were new or different.

[Niallkennedy.com] Niall Kennedy's Weblog: Google Sitemaps using Movable Type: Arvind: No, because it is a different notification method. Movable Type publicity options currently supports XML-RPC pings in the Weblogs.com format only. Movable Type would need to have HTTP Post publicity options with the ability to specify parameters in this case but I think it's more likely that Google will introduce their own XML-RPC ping beacon with support for extended ping -- home page + feed location -- as Google Fusion and other products ramp up.

[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.

[Nedbatchelder.com] Ned Batchelder: June 2005: As a web-head, I'm used to reading about obscure things like Googlebombing.I'm not so used to having ordinary citizens want to discuss it.I was at a family gathering today, and an uncle wanted my advice on improvinghis ranking for his bamboo web site.I explained the concept of Googlebombing to him, and he was all for it.Is the general population getting savvier about this stuff?Does everyone now understand Google and search rankings the way theyunderstand Nielsen ratingsor the weekend box office?

[Technorati.com] Technorati: Tag: xml: We finally joined the pack and broke down and joined Bloglines and even got another blog there (somebody STOP us!) Anyway, you can easily subscribe to...

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