I just heard from fellow blogger, Chris Dawson, that the UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer (and future PM!), Gordon Brown, hosted the inaugural meeting of Britain’s International Business Advisory Council today in London.

Attendees of the first meeting includes Meg Whitman from eBay, as well as other world business leaders from companies such as Citibank, Rolls Royce and GlaxoSmithKline. Bill Gates is also on the panel, but didn’t attend this first meeting.

The Council will advise the Chancellor and the Trade Secretary on global business to ensure that the UK continues to be one of the top locations for international commerce.
You can read more on Chris’s Tamebay blog.

p.s. sorry about the weather today, Meg (it’s a grey, rainy day in London)!

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Looks like Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft (GYM) are combining forces on the Sitemaps standard. They’ve created a website sitemaps.org.

Here are links to Yahoo! and Google announcing the change. It looks like when one engine, or maybe Google mostly, hits on a good idea, other engines aren’t shy to pick up on it. The same thing happened with the NOFOLLOW attribute on links.

Sitemaps allows you to describe your site better to search engines, as well as gives you some insight into the crawling performance of your website.

Some things I wonder about with this announcement:

• With RE: Yahoo’s paid inclusion strategy: I suppose Paid Inclusion will have preference over Sitemaps submitted data?
• When will Ask.com follow?

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