Some slightly related from Technorati and Google.

[ InsideGoogle - part of the Blog News Channel] Why Doesn’t Google Sitemaps Use RSS?: Many publishers, despite the benefits, would say no to RSS pings because they don’t want RSS (not an idea I agree with, of course). They are against RSS because of the control it gives up. Google wants everyone to use Sitemaps, it figures it can avoid any anti-RSS feelings some publishers have by using something else. If Google can avoid using RSS, it can get those anti-RSS publishers to sign up anyway.

[Tech Gadgets Blog - LiewCF.com] Google Sitemaps - Helps Google to Index Your Site: 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.

 [ John Cox :: Wyome Blog] Google SiteMap: The idea behind this Xaraya theme is to grab all content from my site in the format that Google can read. I am using the base module and module tags to generate all articles on a single page by way of manipulating the numitems var. Once the publication type is called, I am simply loading an include much like the RSS theme.

 [Niallkennedy.com] Niall Kennedy's Weblog: Google Sitemaps using Movable Type: 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.

 [Technorati.com] Technorati: Tag: xml: Validate Your Google Sitemap You’ve no doubt heard about Google Sitemaps already. With the addition of a couple lines to your sitemap.xml file, you...

 [Technorati.com] Technorati: Tag: XML: Validate Your Google Sitemap You’ve no doubt heard about Google Sitemaps already. With the addition of a couple lines to your sitemap.xml file, you...

 [Technorati.com] Technorati: Tag: xml: Validate Your Google Sitemap You’ve no doubt heard about Google Sitemaps already. With the addition of a couple lines to your sitemap.xml file, you...

[Weblogs.macromedia.com] Macromedia XML News Aggregator: Six Apart Professional Network (16 minutes); Danger's Flash Blog (19 minutes) ... Anders Jacobsen has just posted a new Google SiteMap template which adds ...

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