Today we're pleased to announce an update to the Sitemaps Protocol , in collaboration with Google , and Yahoo! This update should help many new sites adopt the protocol by increasing our flexibility on where Sitemaps are hosted. Essentially, the change allows a webmaster to store their Sitemap files just about anywhere, using a reference in the Robots.txt file to establish a trusted relationship between the Sitemap file and the domain or folder. Here's how it works: Say you run a web site like MSN.com , which has a bunch of sub domains like health.msn.com , travel.msn.com and moneycentral.msn.com . And, due to a technical requirement, you would like to host all of your Sitemaps in one location...
In just hours, we will be heading to sunny Santa Clara California. If you're going to be attending SMX West be sure to come see us at one of the Live Search or adCenter sessions, booths or at the Search Bowl. Both Nathan and myself along with lots of other folks from Redmond will be making the rounds and enjoying a little bit of sunshine (hopefully!). SMX West Keynote Panel Brad Goldberg, Keynote Generation Next: Search In The Coming Decade Search Session Speakers & Panelists Raju Malhotra (Panel Speaker) Search 3.0: The Blended Search Revolution Henry Hall (Q&A Speaker) Search 3.0: Video, Images & Blended Results Kevin Hagwell (Q&A Speaker) Search 3.0: Local Search & Blended...
Today we're pleased to announce several improvements in the crawler for Live Search that should significantly improve the efficiency with which we crawl and index your web sites. We are always looking for ways to help webmasters, and we hope these features take us a few more steps in the right direction. HTTP Compression : HTTP compression allows faster transmission time by compressing static files and application responses, reducing network load between your servers and our crawler. We support the most common compression methods: gzip and deflate as defined by RFC 2616 (see sections 14.11 and 14.39). Compression is currently supported by all major browsers and search engines. Use this online...
