Google Sitemap and anchors

Does google crawler get anchor in URI when inserted in sitemap files?

[asantos]

Does google crawler get anchor in URI when inserted in sitemap files?

Example of my sitemap:
[...]
<url>
<loc>http://www.example.com/about_me/</loc>
<lastmod>2006-03-13</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
</url>

<url>
<loc>http://www.example.com/about_me/#picture</loc>
<lastmod>2006-03-13</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
</url>
[...]

Is the second -url- relevant to the google spider?

[edited by: tedster at 5:35 pm (utc) on Mar. 18, 2006]
[edit reason] use example.com for a generic domain [/edit]

[tedster]

I don't know for sure, but don't see why an additional url for the anchor would be relevant. On page anchors are not returned in the SERPs, and if the html document itself is crawled, then all the content is indexed, including the content at any anchors.

[asantos]

i've been trying to find this kind of info around the internet with no success. Anybody else has certified info to share?

[Porter5Forces]

Googlebot does not crawl urls with anchors. I'd anchors for some of the links before but these urls are ignored by Google. As soon as I remove the anchors(#), the urls are indexed.

[asantos]

Thanks for the info Peter