UK national newspapers neglecting sitemaps for better search indexing
Posted on April 24, 2008 - Filed Under ACAP, Search | 2 Comments
UK newspaper websites are not implementing standard protocols supported by search engines such as Yahoo and Google.
According to blogger and internet consultant Martin Belam, only two of the UK’s national newspapers use sitemap.xml
- a feature which lists all pages a given site wants to be indexed by a search engine.
And the winners are: The Daily […]
Eric Schmidt - Google resistance to ACAP based on technology
Posted on March 19, 2008 - Filed Under Linking, ACAP, google, Newspapers, Search, Online Journalism | 1 Comment
Google CEO Eric Schmidt has denied that Google’s resistance to using ACAP is based on ‘wanting to control’ publishers information, insisting that it is strictly a technology issues.
Speaking to iTWire, Schmidt said: “ACAP is a standard proposed by a set of people who are trying to solve the problem [of communicating content access permissions]. We […]
