Well when it comes to sitemaps, Google set the standard and everyone is going to follow along. The standard that they released under a creative commons license was the Sitemap 0.84 XML protocol. My blog currently automatically creates a sitemap using this standard whenever I make a post so I will benefit from more search engines using this technology. With things like sitemaps, I find that there is no reason for each search engine to create their own standard and thus this standard from Google is such a great idea. I’ll have to watch my logs to see if Microsoft or Yahoo’s crawlers will pick up on my sitemap, and actually use it.
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Hopefully the rest of the search engines will join in soon. I have been noticing during last few months that my sitemaps were already accssed by both Yaho and MSN. Intially I thought it was a mistake but after reading your post it suddenly made sense. Great Website Matthew, I am becoming a fan of yours!
Thanks for the positive comments. I haven’t had Yahoo or MSN access my sitemaps yet, but if they are starting to use them, it won’t be much time now.
i want to add msn live and yahoo search box in my site . where can i find the proper html codes .
Example : Google from Adsense
Hi Manojit, for the search boxes.. you can check out the links I have posted here.
For the Microsoft Live Search boxes :
For the Yahoo Search boxes :
<form method=”get” action=”http://search.yahoo.com/search”>
<input type=”text” name=”p” />
 <input type=”submit” value=”Search Yahoo!” />
</form>