Why does yahoo use old sitemap format..

[smilex]

Why yahoo use txt sitemap not use in xml format same google ... it's seem to old format ... i'm just want to know ?

[addlinkurl]

type is not important i think. if the bot see all the links, that would be fine for a search engine.

[seotyran]

The three major search engines just agreed to use the same format.

[spin]

Thats what I thought ...they were going to change this....

[adone]

Why yahoo use txt sitemap not use in xml format same google ... it's seem to old format ... i'm just want to know ?


Yahoo use .txt file for the sitemap, because txt file is much light in weight than comaprison of html and xml format.

thanks

[deriklogov]

I think they use both of those...