The Google Webmaster Tools is a service Google provides to help manage how the website interacts with their search engine, mainly with the indexer. It has facilities for submitting sitemaps, defining what URL parameters to ignore, limiting crawl rates, etc. It also has some useful diagnostic reports, such as a list of broken links found by the Google crawler, which pages are not optimized for search (for example by not having a <title>), etc. It even allows one to request a page be removed from the Google index.
Currently Andrew and I are the only one with access for the www.openoffice.org domain. But I think it makes sense for anyone who is taking a "whole website" view of things to have access, especially so they can periodically check in for reports of problems, like missing pages. So maybe Davie and Kay? Anyone from Infra? If you want access, please send me the email address you use for Google. Regards, -Rob
