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Increasing Search Indexing Coverage With an XML Sitemap - Vanessa Fox
Blogged on November 19th, 2008, 12:39 pm | 1 month 17 days ago
If he’s looking to provide comprehensive search for visitors of his site, he might consider Google’s custom search engine (CSE). Generally, the CSE searches over what’s in the Google index. But if you’re submitted a Sitemap, Google will maintain a CSE-specific index that contains any URLs from the Sitemap that aren’t in Google’s web search index. So, the CSE could provide even better search results than a regular web search.
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