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The root /sitemap.xml file that lists every sub-sitemap. Crawled by Googlebot, Bingbot, GPTBot, and Perplexity.
Sitemap Index is the entry point at /sitemap.xml. It lists every sub-sitemap (papers, topics, authors, fresh, news) with a last-modified timestamp. Search crawlers and Answer Engines fetch the index, expand the children, and discover every canonical URL on the platform. Refreshes hourly; pinged to Google and Bing via IndexNow on every update.
Source: curated glossary catalog. Freshness: git_versioned_curated_catalog.
Term API · apps/web/data/glossary/terms.ts