Google announces sitemaps, ping beacon

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Google announces sitemaps, ping beacon

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Google today unveiled Google Sitemaps, a way for webmasters to let Google know about the files on their site as they are published. Webmasters can create a XML file describing the files available on their site and ping Google or simply ping with the location of a RSS or Atom file with each update. You can sign in to your Google account to add and track sitemaps.

Update: User-Agent seems to be new: "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)" coming from 66.249.66.1.

Posted at 7:20PM
Updated at 10:57PM
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Randy Charles Morin on June 2, 2005 at 7:38 PM wrote: #

404 detected. URL encoding issue.
? Niall Kennedy on June 3, 2005 at 7:11 AM wrote: #

Thanks Randy. I fixed it.
Hashim on June 4, 2005 at 8:03 AM wrote: #

Google says the date is invalid when I posted mine.
? Niall Kennedy on June 4, 2005 at 8:21 AM wrote: #

Google might not have accounted for "Z" to represent the same timezone designator as "+00:00" in their code. I am outputting valid ISO8601 datetimes.
windlike on September 8, 2005 at 6:39 PM wrote: #

There's a FAQ for google sitemaps service at https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/docs/en/faq.html , but I didn't find an answer to an immediate question I had asked for my laptop batteries store.