Google Sitemaps launched.Google (Google, Mountain View, CA, www.google.com) The largest search engine on the Web, founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two Stanford University students. In 1996, they developed their "BackRub" search engine, named after its unique page ranking method (explained below). have announced Google Sitemaps, a free online service designed for webmasters that enables them to automatically submit their web pages to Google. Google Sitemaps is a collaborative programme between Google and webmasters. It is meant to provide Google with more information about web content so they can improve search results for users worldwide. Before Google Sitemaps, webmasters could only publish their pages to the web and wait for Google to crawl To search the Internet for hosts, Web pages or blogs. See crawler. their site for inclusion in the Google search Google is owned by Google, Inc. whose mission statement is to "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful". The largest search engine on the web, Google receives several hundred million queries each day through its various services. index. Or they could submit their home page to the "Add URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. " page and hope all the pages linked from it were found. Now webmasters can inform Google about all their existing web pages, prioritise Verb 1. prioritise - assign a priority to; "we have too many things to do and must prioritize" prioritize grade, rate, rank, place, range, order - assign a rank or rating to; "how would you rank these students?"; "The restaurant is rated highly in the food the pages they want crawled first, and say when pages are updated so that Google can index new content faster. Google Sitemaps is intended for all webmasters, from those with a single web page to companies with millions of ever-changing pages. Webmasters can sign up for the programme at www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps. |
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