Back in November 2009, Google News announced they were “in the midst of an exciting transition period” that included a change to the News Sitemap Protocol. News publishers have through April 2010 to modify their News Sitemap to accommodate the new format. What’s so exciting and transitional? I asked Google, thinking that they were changing the protocol to prepare for some exciting new things in Google News. I was a bit disappointed in the answer, then, when they told me the exciting transition was simply the change to the protocol itself.
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