[Web4lib] RE: [XML4Lib] google sitemaps

[Robin Boulton]

will merely mention that when I stopped in yesterday (Monday) at around 2
p.m. there was one blond female (who clearly explained what sitemaps was)
and one dark male. Maybe it depends what time of day...

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> From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:web4lib-
> bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Karen Coyle
> Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 1:34 PM
> To: kgs at bluehighways.com
> Cc: 'Web4Lib'
> Subject: Re: [Web4lib] RE: [XML4Lib] google sitemaps
> 
> 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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