[Web4lib] google sitemaps

[Roy Tennant]

Google sitemaps are solely aimed at assisting web crawling software at 
finding all the pages it should crawl. This in no way replaces (or, in 
a sense, even supplements) metadata harvesting via OAI-PMH, which is a 
distinctly different activity. A parseable sitemap such as this should 
be very useful for web crawlers, however, whether you are Google or an 
individual library wanting to index a selected set of sites.
Roy

On Jun 28, 2005, at 9:46 AM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote:

>
> To what degree has anybody here learned how to exploit Google sitemap 
> files? See:
>
>   http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/docs/en/about.html
>
> Apparently these sitemaps are XML files that Google can read to create 
> more accurate crawls of a website. They seem to be an alternative or 
> supplement to OAI.
>
> -- 
> Eric Lease Morgan
> University Libraries of Notre Dame
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