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

2005-06-07 Thread gstein
On 6/4/05, Bob Wyman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... I think it would be really wonderful if we were to find that non-blog web sites start producing this data. My only regret is that Google has confused matters by publishing this new format to muddy the waters... It was not published to

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

2005-06-07 Thread Bob Wyman
Greg Stein wrote: It was not published to muddy the waters. That implies a specific intent which was *definitely* not present. Please accept my apologies for what was poor writing. I can see how you read my sentence as implying intent to muddy. It wasn't my intent, however, to imply

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

2005-06-07 Thread Walter Underwood
--On June 7, 2005 3:17:04 AM -0700 gstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: proprietary connotes closed. We published the spec and encourage other search engines to use it. There is no intent to close or control it. Proprietary means owned. Google clearly owns Google Sitemaps. The license requires