I've gone brain-dead on implementing a custom search engine with Google.

It seemed it once was a much more elaborate process, involving using
Rob's killer extension for generating the xml file, along with getting
an API and the appropriate code from Google based on information I
input into their form.

But I just obtained another code snippet for a new project and it was
fast, simple, easy, and works fine...apparently without my having to
generate the site.xml file.

I'm sure I'm missing something here because obviously Google still
makes use of that file, so I must show my age (I have CRS: Can't
remember s@#t) and ask what the advantage is of also generating the
xml sitemap if the search code works without it?

I'm guessing it has to do with rankings and better search results,
but....thing is, my new search engine seems to return the requested
information quite nicely.

Marcus Duke
Webmaster/Info Specialist
UW Aquatic & Fishery Sciences


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