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November 24, 2006

Confusion with Microsoft as Search Engines Unite with Sitemaps Protocol

Last week the search engines, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! united to provide one standard sitemaps protocol for submission to the search engines for page inclusion. But there is confusion as to where one would submit a sitemaps file to Microsoft.

With Google, you submit your sitemaps file at Google Sitemaps. With Yahoo!, you submit your sitemaps file at Site Explorer.

But where do you submit your sitemaps at Microsoft (aka Live.com)?

That is the discussion of confusion at Cre8asite Forums.



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posted rustybrick in Microsoft MSN Search at November 24, 2006 7:45 AM Comments (4)

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Forget about Cre8astie, even on the official MSN live blog the question was asked TWICE by repliers during last week's announcement thread - Still no reply!!!!


http://blogs.msdn.com/livesearch/archive/2006/11/15/microsoft-google-yahoo-unite-to-support-sitemaps.aspx#comments

 

Posted by Search Engines WEB at November 24, 2006 08:28

Microsoft said it's not implemented yet. Why is everyone looking? They said something like "we're dogfooding it internally before we release it."

 

Posted by Jaimie Sirovich at November 24, 2006 09:07

Here's the quote from Live Search's blog (emphasis is mine):

We are 100% behind this protocol - this kind of collaboration will help improve the search experience for all of our customers, and we are working hard to release full support in 2007. We are starting to alpha test with internal partners such as MSDN and Microsoft Support now. Like all teams at Microsoft, we like to dogfood our work internally to ensure that it is working properly before it is publicly released. Watch this space for an update as soon as we’re done.

http://blogs.msdn.com/livesearch/archive/2006/11/15/microsoft-google-yahoo-unite-to-support-sitemaps.aspx (third paragraph)

martin

 

Posted by martin - webseo at November 24, 2006 10:22

thanks jamie and martin for the scoop... MSN's comment is always a nice way to say "hey we are trying to figure this out." :p

 

Posted by Chris Boggs at November 24, 2006 18:53

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