Jan 11
Which search engines support sitemap.xml files?
Among the searchengines who officially support XML sitemaps according to the sitemaps.xml standard currently are:
- Google (related help blog post with details)
ping url:http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ping?sitemap= - Yahoo (related help)
ping url:http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/updateNotification?appid=SitemapWriter&url=API subscriptionId required
- Ask/ IBM (related help)
ping url:http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap= - Live Search/ Microsoft's MSN related help)
ping url:http://webmaster.live.com/ping.aspx?siteMap= - Yandex (related help)
subscription required at http://webmaster.yandex.ru/wmconsole/
More info can be found on the Wikipedia page about sitemaps.
Some search -engines support auto-discovery of sitemap.xml and sitemap_index.xml files via an entry in the robots.txt file:
Sitemap: