Re: Google Sitemaps: Yet another "RSS" or site-metadata format and Atom "competitor"

2005-06-04 Thread James Tauber
I've been serving my site (not the change log but the actual site) as an Atom feed for as long as my blog has had an Atom feed. One nice (and unintentional) side effect of this is that I can subscribe to the site map in Bloglines and have Bloglines tell me when my non-blog pages are bein

RE: Google Sitemaps: Yet another "RSS" or site-metadata format and Atom "competitor"

2005-06-04 Thread Bob Wyman
Robert Sayre wrote: > it's pretty much the same dictionary or a-list situation we're > used to. Like rel=nofollow, this seems geared towards speeding up > the crawl, with a bunch of rhetoric surrounding it. Maybe I'm just > cynical. Why would you have to be cynical to suggest that support

Re: Google Sitemaps: Yet another "RSS" or site-metadata format and Atom "competitor"

2005-06-04 Thread Robert Sayre
On 6/4/05, Bob Wyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Graham wrote: > > I don't see how a highly specialized format for a particular task is > > a competitor to or even compatible with what Atom does. > The "highly specialized task" which is performed using the Sitemap > format is providing