Google = Bad Deal

My last post was about how the iPhone doesn't allow you to download vcards from the internet. Within a day I was #1 in Google for the search "iphone vcard". It was also picked up by Jaiku. The listing in Google however has since vanished. Censorship? From Apple perhaps? But wait Google shouldn't be doing that... Come now Google. I like you I really do. But why have you removed a post from your index simply stating that a function for the iPhone isn't there?

Sad sad...

I fully suspect that my blogger account will get disabled after this and my entire site to get black listed. *sigh*

Sitemaps oh Joy!

I've been reading up on this new fangled sitemaps thing. Because its all the rage now for some reason... even though Google has been doing it since '05. (Well now that Yahoo! has jumped on board and MSN says they will support it (later sometime... who knows.))

Here are some useful links for those who need some info on it:

General info:
Sitemaps.org
Google's Sitemaps

Submission (users are required):
Yahoo!'s Site Explorer
Google's Sitemaps

Alot of people say you can add a line in your robots.txt file to submit your site. I don't really like this approach for a few reasons. The original intent of robots.txt was to let spiders know where they could poke your website. You really can't stay with that intent by adding lines to let spiders know where there are xml files. The other reason is because there is no RFC or standards body that owns robots.txt. So it really isn't a standard at all.

Just my $0.02.