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Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft join forces on sitemaps

Yahoo!, Microsoft, and GoogleThat sound you hear? It's the sound of a million webmasters shouting for joy. I certainly didn't see it coming, but Microsoft, Yahoo!, and Google have entered an agreement to support a single, unified sitemap protocol, which webmasters can use to give all three companies' search engines a complete listing of their site's pages. Microsoft's Live Search Blog, the Yahoo! Search Blog, and Google's Webmaster Central Blog all have announcements about the unified effort, and the companies have launched sitemaps.org to promote the protocol. The protocol itself has been released under the Creative Commons license and other search engines have been invited to use it as well. Search Engine Watch has the press release.

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Filed under: Internet, Web services, Google, Googleholic

Googleholic for August 29th, 2006

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In this issue of Googleholic we cover:
  • Google has too much money
  • Webmaster Central blog
  • The Google Tower
  • How Google Profits from Spam
  • Google's look into hydropowered electricity
  • Google's next online applications
  • Google Maps Red Light Camera detection
  • NYC parking locator
Tuesday's Googleholic...Starting off the week right...

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Filed under: Internet, News, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Windows Mobile, Symbian, Palm, Web services, Google, Freeware, Unix

Google announces Webmaster Central

Google announces Webmaster CentralAnyone eager to climb Google's pagerankings - listen up, as Google has just introduced a slew of tools specifically designed to allow webmasters to learn more about and interact with Google's crawling and indexing systems. Complete with a topic-specific blog, this new Webmaster Central service offers tools like a site status wizard (I thought we were getting away from 'wizards' in the industry), statistics, diagnostics and sitemap submission tools, as well as a discussion group and a webmaster help center for good measure.

I took a quick breeze through the offerings in Webmaster Central, and it looks like a fairly comprehensive set of tools. Of course, with Google's typical track record for pricing with similar services, everything under the Webmaster Central umbrella is free, so what are you waiting for?

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