yeah, and from the paragraph you just cited you left out the last sentence. "Please note that this rule is waived with News sitemaps." so basically the >= thr

yeah, and from the paragraph you just cited you left out the last sentence. "Please note that this rule is waived with News sitemaps." so basically the >= three digits rule doesn't apply any more (for years now), as a matter of fact i don't know why google still has in in there as it always leads to a lot of confusions. i once consulted a big newspaper which were in an ongoing project to change their URLs just because one of their (middle)managers has read this spec...