Will this make life for webmasters easier?
Internet search rivals Google, Yahoo and Microsoft formed an unusual alliance to support a shared standard regarding how websites are pinpointed for their indexes.
The “joint initiative” was intended to make it easier for webmasters, or website creators, to let Internet search engines know what their online pages contained, according to Google was.
Search engines could use the information gathered in the “web crawl” process to better tailor results for their users.
Yahoo and Microsoft announced they would each support Google’s “Sitemaps 0.90″ protocol instead of using different standards for submissions by webmasters.