Yahoo and Microsoft announced on Thursday that they would each support Google's "Sitemaps 0.90" protocol instead of using different standards for submissions by webmasters.

story ..http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1846046,00020020.htm

This is probably not the right forum for this ..but as it affects all 3 search engines I couldn't find an appropriate ..Admin move it / or not as you see fit ;-)..and maybe you can get the link to work too :)