September 13, 2005
Google updates indexing service for (mobile) webmasters
Google has launched ten new interface languages for its Sitemaps service, which lets webmasters to submit their web pages, including those designed specifically for mobile devices, for inclusion in Google's index.
Launched in the US earlier this year, the beta-test program has been extended to work in French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, and UK English languages.
Now, webmasters can inform Google about all their existing web pages, prioritise the pages they want crawled first, and tell Google when pages are updated so that Google can index new content faster.
Before Google Sitemaps, webmasters could only publish their pages to the web and wait for Google to crawl their site for inclusion in the Google search index. [via Netimperative]
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