[Web4lib] RE: [XML4Lib] google sitemaps

[Karen Coyle]

I'm not surprised. This was Google's first time to exhibit at ALA, and 
they showed up with the same booth staff that they would use for 
computer industry shows: young, blonde (I only saw females in the booth 
when I went by), and very uninformed about the technology. I hope that 
someone at Google picks up on the fact that ALA requires a different 
approach.

kc

K.G. Schneider 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.
>>    
>>
>
>I have a sort-of story about this which I thought about putting on the LITA
>blog but decided it was too peripheral. I stopped by the Google booth at the
>ALA exhibits and saw a handout about this. I started to pull a copy forward
>to me.
>
>"Oh, THAT'S for webmasters," said the pretty young thing in the power suit,
>pulling back the handout.
>
>"I manage a website," I said. 
>
>"Uh-er-uh," she replied, and let me take the handout. 
>
>Honestly.
>
>I plan to look at this when I get back. 
>
>Karen G. Schneider
>
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