#971342 by Dave Reid: Officially disable support for Ask.com, Moreover, and...

#971342 by Dave Reid: Officially disable support for Ask.com, Moreover, and Yahoo search engine submission.

xmlsitemap_engines/xmlsitemap_engines.install

@@ -31,8 +31,16 @@ function xmlsitemap_engines_uninstall() {
 }
 
 /**
- * Implements hook_update_last_removed().
+ * Deprecate support for Ask.com, Moreover, and Yahoo! search engines.
  */
-function xmlsitemap_engines_update_last_removed() {
-  return 6201;
+function xmlsitemap_engines_update_6202() {
+  $engines = variable_get('xmlsitemap_engines_engines', array());
+  $removed = array(
+    'ask' => 'Ask.com',
+    'moreover' => 'Moreover',
+    'yahoo' => 'Yahoo.com',
+  );
+  $engines = array_diff($engines, array_keys($removed));
+  variable_set('xmlsitemap_engines_engines', $engines);
+  return t('The following search engines have deprecated their XML sitemap ping services and have been disabled: !list.', array('!list' => implode(', ', $removed)));
 }

xmlsitemap_engines/xmlsitemap_engines.module

@@ -209,16 +209,6 @@ function xmlsitemap_engines_xmlsitemap_engine_info() {
     'url' => 'http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ping?sitemap=[sitemap]',
     'help url' => 'http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=156184',
   );
-  $engines['yahoo'] = array(
-    'name' => t('Yahoo!'),
-    'url' => 'http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/updateNotification?appid=SitemapWriter&url=[sitemap]',
-    'help url' => 'http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/search/siteexplorer/manage/siteexplorer-45.html',
-  );
-  $engines['ask'] = array(
-    'name' => t('Ask.com'),
-    'url' => 'http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=[sitemap]',
-    'help url' => 'http://about.ask.com/en/docs/about/webmasters.shtml#22',
-  );
   $engines['bing'] = array(
     'name' => t('Bing'),
     'url' => 'http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap=[sitemap]',